Re: problem sending to a user in mexico - accented character in the username

Patrick W. Gilmore writes:
 > On Mar 2, 2008, at 12:08 AM, JC Dill wrote:
 > 
 > > I'm assisting someone who is trying to reply to email from some  
 > > people she met on a cruise.  She gave them her email, they emailed  
 > > her from Mexico.  She didn't get their email in writing - she only  
 > > has it in the email they sent her.
 > >
 > > When she tries to reply, the email bounces.
 > >
 > > The username has an accented character.
 > >
 > > When it was forwarded to me, the username came out as:
 > >
 > > garduñosonig_2000
 > 
 > Try putting in the ASCII number with an escape char ("%" maybe?) in  
 > front.

'%' would turn it into a route address so that would definitely not
work.  There is a relevant standard (MIME quoted-printable) for encoding
non-ASCII characters in headers but it's not meant for email addresses
themselves.

I'm pretty sure RFC 2822 requires that header data all be in 7-bit ASCII
and trying to use non-ASCII characters in email addresses is going to
cause lots of problems, like it is here.

I wouldn't be surprised if it did turn out that simply using the
non-accented version of the accented character turned it into a correct
address.  What is the original envelope sender address (hopefully in the
Return-path: header)?

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