[Hidden-tech] strange email problem, Mac related

[Christopher Miles]

Frieda,

The only other method for encoding a space is with a slash:

   chris\ miles

While there are rules about having spaces in an e-mail address, there  
are no such rules about spaces in a user's name. This happens a lot  
in Windows environments where the user name is often the persons  
first and last name.

If the dot in the space works on his Windows machine then that should  
work on his Macintosh as well. My suspicion is that his outgoing  
server isn't setup correctly and that is where the problem truly  
lies. OIT at UMASS, for instance, requires SSL for the outgoing  
server if you are off campus. Other organizations may have similar  
quirks

   http://www.oit.umass.edu/umail/software/configumail/ 
mac_applemail.html

-- Miles

On Apr 2, 2007, at 5:55 PM, Frieda Reichsman wrote:

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> 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?
>
> Frieda
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