Re: Spaces in addresses, allowed?
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 02:22:50PM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote:
> 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 (-).
>
OK, thanks, I'll try with underscores. I've already sent an E-mail to
the 'owner' of the web page which had the address on it.
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Chris Green (chris@xxxxxxxxxxx)