[Hidden-tech] strange email problem, Mac related

[Robert Heller]

At Mon, 2 Apr 2007 17:55:34 -0400 Frieda Reichsman <friedar at nsm.umass.edu> wrote:

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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.

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