Steven,
This problem would be a lot easier to track if we could get the entire
bounce message, with headers. I just tried (through Telnet) sending you
a message via a username with a trailing period through the primary MX
for that domain, and it seemed to work OK; let me know privately if you
received it.
Regards
Mark Hartman
At 12:06 PM -0400 4/12/02, Stefan Jeglinski wrote:
>This is not a SIMS question per se, but we have e-mail gurus here,
>and so with nothing else to do on a Friday I humbly blather before
>you :-)
>
>There is a person with a sympatico acct whose e-mail name is 'mary.'
>(read "mary" "dot").
>
>When she e-mails me from 'mary.' to my SIMS account ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>everything is fine. When she e-mails me from 'mary.' to my
>roadrunner address [EMAIL PROTECTED], she gets a bounce that
>simply reports 'invalid user'. When she sends from a dotless address
>('imary') to [EMAIL PROTECTED], it works fine. To further
>confound the issue, sending from mary. to a user at san.rr.com
>generates no bounce. To summarize:
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] -> [EMAIL PROTECTED] no problem
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] -> [EMAIL PROTECTED] bounce
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] -> [EMAIL PROTECTED] no problem
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] -> [EMAIL PROTECTED] no problem
>all_other_e-mails -> [EMAIL PROTECTED] no problem (AFAICT)
>
>Obviously there's something going on with nc.rr.com and dot
>usernames. I have an e-mail in to them, but I was wondering if any
>gurus here had some insight to any potential problems with '.' in
>usernames, as far as MTAs go. Is there any reason to filter and
>bounce them, for example?
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