Re: Apostrophe in email address - best practice?

2011-03-11 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
I think its a smart move on their part. Violating the spec of not, it will cause less confusion amongst their users, and less likely a chance for an accidental exposure of information. -- ME2 On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: According to Google,

Re: Apostrophe in email address - best practice?

2011-03-11 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote: According to Google, that's a feature. Their take is they didn't want b.scott@ and bscott@ being two different recipients -- too easily confused or used in a social engineering attack. I think its a smart

Re: Apostrophe in email address - best practice?

2011-03-10 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Chris cmu...@gmail.com wrote: Another one missed by none other than Google for their Gmail service is the . . To Gmail, c.mu...@gmail.com is the same as cmu...@gmail.com is the same as cmun...@gmail.com. Didn't know how many of you knew that or not. According

RE: Apostrophe in email address - best practice?

2011-03-09 Thread Nicholas Turner
Best practice would be to get them to change their name, much easier, this goes for people with common names who share them in an organisation too. From: xyz [mailto:x...@minneapolis.edu] Sent: 09 March 2011 01:20 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Apostrophe in email address - best practice?

RE: Apostrophe in email address - best practice?

2011-03-09 Thread Guyer, Don
To set the name using the apostrophe so it appears correctly in the OAB, wouldn't that just be the Display Name? I sound like I'm asking because I haven't touched/seen/smelled Xch 2010 yet. J Don Guyer Windows Systems Engineer Datasafe Platform Enterprise Technology Group Fiserv

Re: Apostrophe in email address - best practice?

2011-03-09 Thread Jonathan Link
I've had a similar occurrence happen to me. And I still get emails for him occasionally. Last one I received last week was when he setup his auto pay for his Allstate car insurance... On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: I started noticing that when

Re: Apostrophe in email address - best practice?

2011-03-08 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
I would recommend that you not allow it. Not because of Exchange, but because of an unknown issue you may have with some other mail system/filter. Quotes of any kind can be particularly difficult because of how they are used inherently in script-based apps. I would err on the side of caution

RE: Apostrophe in email address - best practice?

2011-03-08 Thread Steve Szabo
I was babysitting a network while the client was in search of a new tech to do it fulltime. There was one user that had a last name with the apostrophe as the primary address. She had a lot of problems with e-mail. I created a primary without the apostrophe and moved the apostrophe name as an