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On Sunday, March 30, 2003, Thomas Fernandez wrote...

>> What Peter referenced too was the first line I sent, HELO [my
>> host]. What has happened is when your computer connected to the
>> server, it sent it's known name as part of the transaction. As you
>> had an extended character (�) in the hostname, the server failed to
>> do it's work properly, and as it didn't resolve, it automatically
>> rejected.

> If the error message came from the server, how come there were no
> problems with Outlook or Becky?

They might be using a different value for hostname, ie, if you're
using dial-up, outlook/becky might use the resolved hostname for that,
while TB! uses the hostname found on the computer.

>> The interesting thing is that domain names are now supporting
>> extended characters, so I believe the � is a valid character in
>> domain names now.

> I haven't seen such an error message, but can it be possible that TB
> checks the validity of the domain name and isn't aware that extended
> characters are now allowed, so the error message actually came from
> TB and not the server? It that case, Ritlabs would need a little
> hint.

I doubt TB does that to be honest, would seem a little unusual step,
but I could be wrong ;)

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Jonathan Angliss
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