IIS and SMTP - emails with apostrophe

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emails with apostrophe

Dan

2004-02-18, 5:33 pm

my E2K does not accept emails with apostrophe in username (e.g.
joe.o'tool@domain.com). any suggestions? i can send/receive using my
yahoo account. what could be the difference?

thanks

dan

Jeff Cochran

2004-02-19, 2:35 am

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 22:33:46 -0800, "Dan"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>my E2K does not accept emails with apostrophe in username (e.g.
>joe.o'tool@domain.com). any suggestions? i can send/receive using my
>yahoo account. what could be the difference?

Yahoo accepts the apostrophe, Exchange doesn't. It's an illegal
character in many mail systems.

Jeff