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Re: Spaces in addresses, allowed?



On 18-08-2004, at 13h 02'19", Chris Green wrote about "Spaces in addresses, 
allowed?"
> I am trying to send E-Mail to an address that *claims* to be:-
> 
>     kathy and dave@xxxxxxx
> 
> Is this a valid address?  If it is how can I persuade mutt to send
> mail to it?
> 

Spaces in addresses are allowed, but not in eMail addresses :-))

You may convince mutt to send an e-mail to an address with spaces, but
sendmail/exim/etc. will refuse it. In that case (from above) you will
get 2 errors that kathy@localhost and and@localhost doesn't exist. You
may get the third error message that dave@xxxxxxx doesn't exist if
indeed doesn't exist.

I advice to send an e-mail to the address without spaces or/and the
the address with spaces replaced by underscore (_). And if all
failled, maybe with dash (-).


Ionel