Same here, but if I may point out a bit of a problem externally. I have a friend who uses [EMAIL PROTECTED] (it was an annual military exercise we both used to participate in, shame on you for thinking other wise) to which he receives a lot of email that is actually intended for [EMAIL PROTECTED] (a company that manages exotic dancers and dance troops). There is an underscore in there, but I'm think a lot of the web's less knowledgeable users wouldn't know that and so they truncate the user name unintentionally. While he does enjoy the resumes and he is kind enough to pass the mail on to it's intended recipients, it is not the way things should go. I think you might consider mentioning such a possibility to any customers who choose to use an under score in their user name.
Kevin Childers ,,,,, ����} ~' Customer Support Desk (910) 486-7845 / (888) 228-0312 Fayetteville Internet Communications APCNet - FayNet - NetQuick - QuickWAN The Carolinas' Fastest Internet Communications Provider ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Ferguson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 5:17 PM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Is this a bug or a "feature"? > Finally, I win an award (smile)! > > Yeah, I guess I'm going to have to work with our customers to get rid of the > periods and set similar rules as yours. One question, any problems with > "_"? I have quite a few that use that and haven't seen any problems (boy, > am I asking for it with that statement -- smile). > > Bob > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tony Gray - > Network Administrator > Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 2:01 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Is this a bug or a "feature"? > > > Award Granted. :-) > I don't allow punctuation at all in usernames, but I know a lot of servers > do, so I figured I'd throw that in there as possibly a good alternative to > the hyphen for you. > > My local rules are: 3-30 characters, all lower case, can contain numbers > but must start with a letter, no punctuation or spaces allowed. These rules > jive with both my RADIUS and Imail (I'm using 6.06), so on my system at > least, any username that fits these works with everything. I've yet to have > any problem that pointed to username syntax. Knock on wood. > > Good Luck! > - Tony > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bob Ferguson > >Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 4:31 PM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Is this a bug or a "feature"? > > > > > >This brings up another question -- I've had intermittent problems > >with email > >names that have periods in them when the user accesses iMail via the Web > >interface. And, sometimes, even with Outlook 2K. The weird part > >is that it > >doesn't ALWAYS happen. But, sometimes the account is suddenly not > >available. The Web interface and/or O2K will just report they can't get to > >it. Restarts, delete of suspect files, threats don't work. Give > >it an hour > >or so and everything clears up. I've check CPU usage, memory usage, hard > >disk -- nothing sticks out as a possibility. > > > >If I remove the period, it seems that that account is no longer a candidate > >for the problem, but the issue is sporadic enough, that I can't be > >absolutely sure that's. Just that it has never happened to an account that > >doesn't have a period. > > > >This is NT4 SP6a, iMail 7.04. Anyone seen this? Or, do I get an award for > >the odd error today? > > > >Bob Ferguson > >Sound Data, Inc. > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tony Gray - > >Network Administrator > >Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 1:08 PM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Is this a bug or a "feature"? > > > > > ><snip> > > > >only allow usernames 3-30 characters, no spaces, no hyphens, only letters > >and numbers, and maybe a period. > > > ><snip> > > > > > >Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > >to be removed from this list. > > > >An Archive of this list is available at: > >http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > > >Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked > >questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > >--- > >[This E-mail was scanned for viruses by http://www.intouchmi.com] > > > > > > --- > [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by http://www.intouchmi.com] > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked > questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked > questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
