That's what I meant... Outlook Express (the user's mail application) should have stripped any spaces in the e-mail address before the mail ever reached the server. And I don't understand why it didn't. But I'll follow up with them to see what the story is/was.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Davide Libenzi > Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 20:26 > To: XMail mailing list > Subject: [xmail] Re: Maximum number of tenatives reached > > > On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Tracy Martin wrote: > > > Good catch on the space - I completely missed that. > > > > However, I'm trying to figure how the space got there in the > first place. > > This is an address that originated from the end user's mail application > > (Outlook Express, if I recall correctly), and the mail > application itself > > should strip trailing spaces. > > It should be MUA responsibility to correctly format the user address, and > it should be MTA responsibility to reject malformed addresses. > > > > > - Davide > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
