Someone correct me if I am wrong but characters like spaces, quote marks
and the like are not part of the mail protocol standard, this is part of
the reason why you're experiencing issues with either connecting to the
server using telnet or mail programs.
In most cases for an email address or logon id the administrator would
need to be the one responsible in replacing the spaces with a character like
_ or - 

just my 2c worth

> G'day...
> 
> Apologies if this is slightly off-topic...  I'm wanting to 
> read my Lotus Notes mail at work from my Linux machine..
> 
> My username contains spaces and slashes though, and I 
> Ximian Evolution can't seem to handle it. Nor am I having 
> any luck manually trying to log in via telnetting to the 
> imap port on the server.
> 
> I've tried double quotes but this doesn't seem to help.
> 
> Any ideas, pointers, comments appreciated...
> 
> Thanks...
> 
> Mike
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