At Mon, 2 Apr 2007 17:55:34 -0400 Frieda Reichsman <friedar at nsm.umass.edu> wrote: > > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > ** The author of this post was a Good Dobee. > ** You too can help the group > ** Fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. > ** If you did, we all thank you. > > > > > > Hi, > > I have a friend who is trying out an iBook; mostly he is a Windows > user. So far everything has gone smoothly except for one quirky issue > that I cannot seem to solve. That is that his email username has a > space in it. > > On his Win machines, this is handled by using a dot in place of the > space. But in setting up the same email account in Mail on his Intel > iBook, the outgoing mail server will not accept the password for his > username, whereas the incoming mail server has no problem. Thus he > can receive mail, but not send any. > > I have tried using a dot, a space, "%20" (without the quotes), and an > underscore in the username where the space occurs. For the incoming > server, the dot works. For the outgoing server, none of them work. > Does anyone know how to handle this? What ISP is creating E-Mail addresses with spaces in them? I thought that was forbotten by RFC822? The local part (before the '@') should only contain alphnumbercs (letters, digits), and - and _ and . and nothing else. > > Frieda > > > /////////////////////////////////////////// > > Frieda Reichsman > Molecules in Motion > Interactive Molecular Structures > http://www.moleculesinmotion.com > > /////////////////////////////////////////// > > > > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Linux Installation and Administration http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Web Hosting, with CGI and Database heller at deepsoft.com -- Contract Programming: C/C++, Tcl/Tk