[NTLK] Special characters in owner info allowed?

From: Frank Gruendel (newtontalk_at_pda-soft.de)
Date: Thu Aug 19 2004 - 00:22:10 PDT

Hi all,

I do have the impression that some mail servers do not allow special
characters in the "from" fields of sent mail. This does not mean
the sender's email address itself, but the part of the "From" field
that is taken from the Newton's owner info.

Does anybody know
if this is true or not true? I had an owner in "owner info" whose
last name contained an umlaut, and I received a SMTP error
from freenet.de: 550 syntax error in header. I changed the
umlaut to "ue" and this time the mail was accepted.

If it is actually a problem, it should added to the FAQ...

Thanks

Frank

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