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Mac Forum / Applications / Eudora / April 2004Underscore address ?
I have an address that requires me to underscore the first word in the address. The "To" box won't accept my attempts to underscore. Even when I paste it in underlined. What's the solution ? I am using v.3.3.3. Thanks -- Gunther Abrahamson aa994@ncf.ca >I have an address that requires me to underscore the first word in the >address. The "To" box won't accept my attempts to underscore. Even when I >paste it in underlined. What's the solution ? I am using v.3.3.3. Just on general principles, and may be annoying to you: We (the rest of us, on the whole) are running version 6.x by now --- don't you think it's time to do an upgrade before asking why an ancient version doesn't do what you want it to do? Odds are that the problem (if that's what it is) has been fixed many times over by now. Along with a host of others. And 6.1 still works for Mac OS 9 (and Mac OS X, of course)... /Jon > >I have an address that requires me to underscore the first word in the > >address. The "To" box won't accept my attempts to underscore. Even when I [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > /Jon Generally I agree upgrading is a good thing. But did you even read the question? Granted I don't spend a lot of time buried in the RFCs, but I would be curious to know if underscored usernames, or portions thereof (not one underscore, but other letters/numbers/etc. underscored themselves) are legit. -Andrew  SignatureAndrew Starr eMailman(r): http://www.emailman.com NewsReaders: http://www.newsreaders.com >I >would be curious to know if underscored usernames, or portions thereof >(not one underscore, but other letters/numbers/etc. underscored >themselves) are legit. They would be 8-bit characters, wouldn't they? Even now, are all mail gateways expected to pass high bit characters? In the body of a mail, they would be encoded as 7 bit for transmission, wouldn't they? But I wouldn't have thought that the address would be encoded. I'm speaking from ignorance; I'd be curious to know about the reality. SignaturePeter > >I > >would be curious to know if underscored usernames, or portions thereof [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > wouldn't they? But I wouldn't have thought that the address would be > encoded. Here is what RFC 822 says: 3.1.2. STRUCTURE OF HEADER FIELDS Once a field has been unfolded, it may be viewed as being composed of a field-name followed by a colon (":"), followed by a field-body, and terminated by a carriage-return/line-feed. The field-name must be composed of printable ASCII characters (i.e., characters that have values between 33. and 126., decimal, except colon). The field-body may be composed of any ASCII characters, except CR or LF. (While CR and/or LF may be present in the actual text, they are removed by the action of unfolding the field.) Underscored letters are not included in the ASCII characters, so I think many (most?) mail software would not handled underscored characters in the headers gracefully. Gunther, could it be a mistake on someone's part to show the letter as underscored? Perhaps it is supposed to be preceded by the underscore, which is an ASCII character, and I see many email addresses which include an underscore between letters. SignatureKathy Cathy is right ( as usual ). The address was wrong. The undrescore was between two words in the adress. Thanks all. -- Gunther Abrahamson aa994@ncf.ca |
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