Yes, Netscape is a problem, even in the new versions. You would think you
could turn off the "smart @" interpretation, but I don't think you can.
Netscape always assumes you were mistaken when you included the "@", and
strips off the rest.
We decided to use pop ids such as:
joe-domain.com
instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good ol' "double-dash". Almost any special
character is asking for trouble. "&" and "$" screw up your unix command
line, ".." somehow is supposed to risk security by directory climbing, "%",
"!", and "=" are all used for special functions in email addresses, etc.
And ".", "_", and "-" should all be legal email characters. We just enforce
that no email address can contain a "-" (double dash) and it works fine.
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: Markus Stumpf [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 12:49 PM
To: Shashi Dahal; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Eudora? Outlook?
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 02:17:40PM -0700, Shashi Dahal wrote:
> is that only Eudora can collect mails from that pop server whereas
Outlook
> and Netscape mails cannot.
How do you accounts look like?
Netscape tends to stripe of everything after and including the "@".
So it may happen that you try to login to the POP server as
joe instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and the the authentication will most likely fail.
Some POP password checking modules out there allow replacing the "@"
with an "%", so you can login as joe%pop.example.com also, which
e.g. netscape will leave unmodified.
\Maex
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