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| Thread ID: 47697 | 2004-08-02 23:38:00 | Email addresses - how fussy? | Susan B (19) | Press F1 |
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| 257765 | 2004-08-02 23:38:00 | One of my jobs is to send emails to people whose hand-written email address has been given to me. Due to the circumstances (blokes in a big hurry :p) a good deal of the writing is atrocious at best so I have a lot of fun guessing what the address is supposed to be. Thanks to prior training reading doctor's prescriptions I am quite good at it, even if I do say so myself, but there are still a handful each time that I have to admit defeat with as they bounce no matter what I try. My query is: how important is it which case is used in an email address? For example would an address like Tarzan.Jane@isp.co.nz still be sent through if I addressed it to tarzan.jane@isp.co.nz? Are some ISPs more fussy than others in that they require it to be exact? It would save me a lot of time if I could just make all email addresses lower case and be sure that they would go through but I would like to know whether I can actually do that. I have tried experimenting with a lot of them with quite a mixed bag of successes and failures so I am not confident about which will work and which won't. Some of them just won't go through no matter what, even though I could have sworn I read the address correctly. Maybe they changed their email address or ISP within the 2-3 weeks since my receiving it? Hopefully Jim B and/or WTF will be able to solve this for once and for all. :-) |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 257766 | 2004-08-02 23:44:00 | Email addresses are case InSenSitIve, so it should not matter. | godfather (25) | ||
| 257767 | 2004-08-02 23:45:00 | From memory, case is always lower, but do notice some of my ones have upper as well. Try sending one to youself in uppercase and see what happens. Bye |
Peter H (220) | ||
| 257768 | 2004-08-02 23:52:00 | Just sent some test messages between several of my addys (Paradise & my own domain, not hosted on Paradise servers) with various mixes of case uto full caps. All got through ok and without delay. Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 257769 | 2004-08-03 00:02:00 | Thanks for the replies, guys . :-) Yes, my own email addy will come through in various disguises of upper and lower case but, unless it is my imagination, some of the emails I have previously sent out appeared to only go through if they are as written, eg Tarzan . Jane@isp . co . nz . I wish I had taken note of those ones now because I have a variety of bounced emails from various smaller ISPs and also ones with Name@ThisCompany . com type of addresses . Oh well, I am not wasting any more time on them - if they want their emails they will have to learn to slow down and write more clearly . ;-) |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 257770 | 2004-08-03 01:01:00 | I think the lower case thing has been hammered into us ("my email addy is xyz@isp.com ALL LOWER CASE"). In my experience it doesn't make a difference. J :D |
Jester (13) | ||
| 257771 | 2004-08-03 01:18:00 | What about Hotmail and Yahoo addresses though? I thought no upper case letters were accepted in Hotmail addys but I have a couple of Yahoo addys here with some capital letters in the address. ?:| Hotmail addresses bounce more than any of the others. :-( |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 257772 | 2004-08-03 01:27:00 | Godfather is right - All email addresses are case Insensitive so do a mix of upper and lower and it wont matter, for any email address. Websites are a mix of upper and lower-case sensitive, take for example: http://www.dimension.net.nz Spin it any way you want, you'll still get my PC (Well its off at the moment while I recompile everything). You could do: hTTp://wWw.DiMenSIOn.nEt.Nz and you'd still get me :-) There are some snag's though: www.dimension.net.nz is different from www.dimension.net.nz Basically anything after the forwardslash "/" is case sensitive. This is because Linux is case sensitive and Apache (the worlds most common http daemon) supports this. So, for emails, and URL's up until the forwardslash its case InSeNsItIvE. Anything after the forwardslash is case sensitive :-) Hope this helps Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 257773 | 2004-08-03 01:29:00 | > Hotmail addresses bounce more than any of the others. > :-( Again - they are Case Insensitive - Its probably that your recipient has a full mailbox (2 megs is nothing!) or they havent logged into the account for XYZ days (30 with Hotmail) and so the account has been suspended. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 257774 | 2004-08-03 02:00:00 | > Email addresses are case InSenSitIve, so it should > not matter. ^ what he said except in very bizarre cases. |
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