I'm too busy to look, but is this clarified in RFC 2821/2822? Phil
--------------------------------------------- Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Rotman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 25 July 2002 18:11 > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Question regarding "ñ" and other characters > > > Just to clarify RFC821 versus RFC822 > > It is true that RFC821 DOES NOT allow this character in the > destination headers. However, RFC822 DOES allow this > character. In fact there are follow-on RFCs that describe > Quoted-Printable for the 822 headers. So, you should be able > to have the descriptive name match even though the underlying > routing name does not. > > Mark > Plus Pack for OWA > SecureLogoff for OWA > http://www.messageware.net > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: David S. Michel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 1:05 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Question regarding "ñ" and other characters > > > - Exchange 2000 and Win2k w/ English installations > We have a user who wants the "ñ" in his name to also be in his email > address instead of a plain old "n". I know from RFC821 that > this is not a > valid character in an email address and therefore can't be used in > Exchange 2000 since it conforms to the RFC. Furthermore, if > you attempt > to send to an email address with an ñ I get an NDR from my > own categorizer > for the same reason. However, this user insists that at his > last firm his > actual email address was [EMAIL PROTECTED] but that anyone and everyone > could email him to user_ñ@test.com and it would be > "converted" and he'd > get the email. His old firm used Exchange 5.0 (with a spanish > installation) which was before my time but since 5.0 "loosely followed > RFC's" was it possible to do what he's saying happened from either > Exchange or the OS installation? I've called PSS and all > they said was > that it's not possible now but they could not answer if it > was possible at > one time. They and I agree that probably what actually > happened was that > the user's display name had the ñ and that's what people > actually thought > they were sending to. This is actually a big deal to > management so any > help would be appreciated. Thanks. > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
