[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>This is more of a petty annoyance than anything else, but I'd like to
>know if anyone else has experienced it. I recently was contacted by a
>user saying that they were getting bounce messages back each time they
>tried to send mail to a particular local address. Upon further
>investigation it turns out that although this recipient's email address
>in her Outlook address book was spelt correctly, there was a space after
>the last character. When I checked the qmail logs, this space appears as
>a question mark at causing the message to bounce.
My address is "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", not
"[EMAIL PROTECTED] ". If you use the latter, you should expect it
to fail. The space is converted to a "?" in the logs because all
non-printable characters are displayed as ?'s. The message isn't
failing because of the conversion done for the log.
>Anyone have any ideas? When I type a space after an email address
>directly in the 'TO' field it goes OK suggesting this is more than
>likely a flaw in Outlook.
Your MUA strips trailing whitespace. One can argue that Outlook should
also do that, but one can also argue that users should enter addresses
correctly. Of course, any s/w that expects the user to do the right
thing is either broken or rude. � :-)
-Dave
