typo in email adress

[VBmim]

Hello

I have a server running W2K server with exchange 2003.
One of my users had some business cards made but the email adress was misprinted, instead of john_oconnor@company.com it was john_o'connor@company.com.

My questions:
* is john_o'connor@company.com a valid email adress?
* if previous is true, can I somehow get to the emails that were sent to this adress? or can I configure his user account to both accept mails from john_oconnor and john_o'connor?

Greetz

Mim

 

[Marcs41]

yes, you can add it as a second SMTP address to the user account.

Marc
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[JaimeLobo]

To answer your other question, yes an apostrophe "'" is an allowable character in an e-mail address. It's not used very often, because of possible confusion in typing (vs a "`" character.

I don't really like using the "_" either, half the time it's lost when an e-mail address gets underlined or people confuse it with a hyphen/dash "-".

 

[VBmim]

Hello All

Thanks for your responses...

I found indeed how to add a second smtp adress to a user.

About the single quote: I did some testing and no mails arrive in a mailbox with a single quote in the address.

This is the message (one of) the sender gets:
---------------------------------------------------
Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.

Subject: test

Sent: 24/01/2005 13:12


The following recipient(s) could not be reached:

test'adr@company.com on 24/01/2005 13:12

One or more arguments in the recipient was detected as being invalid

The MTS-ID of the original message is: c=BE;a=RTT;p=OTHERCOMPANY;l=abcdex03-040144141146a-29515

MSEXCH:IMS:OTHERCOMPANY:BE1:SERVER01 3599 (000B09B6) Malformed Address
---------------------------------------------------------

Mails sent by hotmail users don't get to the mailbox and no error-message is sent back...

Since it seems to give problems I don't think I'll use single quotes in e-mail adress...

Greetz

Mim

 

[JaimeLobo]

Interesting about the single quote; I have an old reference that says it should be allowed, however I noticed on this page -

http://www.remote.org/jochen/mail/info/chars.html

the single quote is listed as a "Maybe" character.

 

[Marcs41]

What they say is correct , in the way that it can get lost in information, such as a Word doc or so.
As a 'real' address used in mail , it will work, you may encounter problems when using such address in a webpage or other html-aware doc.

Marc
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