[Novalug] OT: yahoo email

cmhowe@patriot.net cmhowe@patriot.net
Mon Nov 11 12:32:44 EST 2013


List, starting with Ed and Walt

I got the same results.

Charlie

> Walt,
>
>    Sending you test email from gmail.  Annoying to test this
> because gmail "fills in" the quoted part given an xxx@yyy.xxx
> email addy, whether or not I want it to.  It looks like it didn't do
> the fill-in for your addy, though.
>
> Ed James
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Walt Smith <waltechmail@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Since we're on email subject,
>> Let me ask the following:
>>
>> has anyone had quirks using popular
>> mundane email such as yahoo or maybe gmail ?
>>
>> yahoo has stopped sending my email out and
>> returns it as "undeliverable" ( which is totally
>> non-descriptive of anything and was a bear
>> to figure out)  if the to: address
>> does not contain a "name" in quotes:
>>
>> "name"<someuser@yahoo.com>
>>
>> where "name"  can be any ascii
>> string... i.e. there's no checking I know of
>> against any address book etc...
>>
>> to me, this breaks the email standard..badly.
>>
>> I have a gmail account but don't use it enough
>> to notice quirks.  So, anything worth mentioning ??
>>
>> thx,
>> Walt.......
>>
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