Hi.
I think by special characters they mean quotes, brackets, slashes, pipes
and of course @ signs etc.
I have lots and lots of users with dots, asterisks dollar symbols,
hashes etc and they do not cause a problem. Often the problem can be
whether it will form a valid filename, according to RFC822 you can
actually use ANY 7bit ASCII character as long as it is contained in a
"quoted string" but I would stay away from this..........
.dots are fine .......
Cheers
Phil
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Sent: 19 January 2004 12:10
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Subject: [IMail Forum] Period in account names
I'm installing IMail for a company that has forever used
accounts in the [EMAIL PROTECTED] format. Although the
docs don't specifically mention using a period in a user name (at least
I didn't see it), I did read that an alias name should not use any
special characters other than an underscore. Does this apply to user
names also?
I set them up with the period in the username and I also created
an alias or two that have a period in the name. IMail appears to not
mind this, as it has been processing the mail correctly.
Just wondering if anyone has run into any issues with this.
These folks are not opposed to dropping the period, but they'd rather
not if it can be avoided. If we did drop it, I would still need to
setup an alias for each user with the old user name containing the
period that resolves to the new name without the period until everyone
was notified of the new addresses.
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