Hello Rick, On Friday, August 12, 2011 you wrote:
>> A Bat-fellow, Jack S. LaRosa, >> wrote in <mid:111247957.20110812102...@charter.net> >> on Friday, 12th August 2011 at 10:21:51 (GMT -0500), >> which was 17:21 in Bratislava -- >>>> The other day I noticed the following: >>>> When I reply (usually via f4), the reply is addressed to, for example: >>>> Mortimer Snerd <msn...@gmail.com> >>>> That will always bounce. However, if I change the reply addressee to >>>> <msn...@gmail.com> >>>> the e-mail message will travel smoothly to its destination. >>> I don't see any difference in the two addresses. Am I missing something? >> I can confirm issues in this vein, although they're not too frequent for me, >> fortunately. >> Sometimes it does happen that a message will bounce if it's rather >> elaborately addressed in the TO field. But when you re-send the same >> message using only the recipient's email address and nothing else in >> the TO field, then the message will go through successfully. >> I suppose there are 3 ways the above address could appear in the TO field >> in the email's headers: >> To: Mortimer Snerd <msn...@gmail.com> >> To: "Mortimer Snerd" <msn...@gmail.com> >> To: msn...@gmail.com >> Only the last option of these 3 is *really* safe to go through. Some folks >> are crazy and put all sorts of things in their "Reply-to" field that don't >> really belong there, which then results in addresses such as: >> "Dr. Johnny Lately - Your Trustworthy Physician"" <lat...@grave.com> >> Now when you attempt to reply to an address like that, The Bat! >> displays it as follows in the TO field in the Editor window: >> "\"Dr. Johnny Lately - Your Trustworthy Physician\"" <lat...@grave.com> >> Lots of ugly escape characters to look at; such things should be >> hidden from the user's eye. And, that's nothing compared to the >> goulash that actually gets sent in the email's header, where the above >> might look something like this: >> To: =?utf-8?Q?=22Dr. Johnny Lately - Your Trustworthy Physician=22?= >> <lat...@grave.com> >> If you think *that's* messy, just write to someone whose name contains >> a diacritic letter... *then* things start getting *really* messy, and >> the TO filed in the email's headers becomes next to impossible to parse >> with human eye. Under such circumstances, I'm not surprised some >> messages containing headers like that get falsely labelled as spam. >> To avoid these problems, you might want to use only the recipient's >> address, and nothing else, in the TO field; I sometimes manually >> delete everything else that's in there, to make sure the message goes >> through without any delivery problems. R> I have never had a problem with Gmail addresses - in ANY of the R> possible formats Ah! NOW I see. -- Jack LaRosa Using The Bat! ver: 4.2.44.2. Running Windows XP Pro ver 5 build 2600 Service Pack 3 ________________________________________________ Current version is 4.2.42 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
