[Hidden-tech] strange email problem, Mac related

[Frieda Reichsman]

On Apr 3, 2007, at Apr 3, 8:06 AM, Robert Heller wrote:

>
> 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.
>

Right-- should-- but doesn't. I appreciate how strange this is.

What I know at present is that this email address was created long  
ago, and has been used without problems for many years, 10 or more  
I'd guess. The email server address has my friend's business name in  
it, so I assume it is something someone set up many years ago  
specifically for the business (I don't know what that says about who  
his ISP is, but I can ask him...)  He's well aware that it is a  
strange thing to have a space in a username, but since everything has  
worked for all this time on his many Win machines, there's not much  
motivation to change it.

He is interested in Macs and has bought a MacBook to explore. This is  
not someone who is or will be necessarily switching to Mac.  
Particularly if email that Win is handling cannot be handled by the  
Mac machine.

I'm not being at all critical of Mac - I'm a devoted fan and long  
time user. Not tolerating a heinous, objectionable, incorrect, etc.  
email address may be a good thing in the long run and probably  
reflects a better design. But in this instance it would be great if  
there were a work-around...

Frieda


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