On Jan 20, 2008 8:58 PM, Martin Marcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > are you saying that when i have 2 gmail addresses > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > they are actually treated the same? That is plain wrong and would break a > lot of mail addresses as I have 2 that follow just this pattern and they > are delivered correctly! > > Do you have any reference on that where one could read up why gmail would > have such a behaviour?
Try the SMTP spec. IIRC there's a passage there that says that the server should try to make sense of addresses that don't map directly to a user name. Specifically, it says that firstname.lastname should be mapped to the user with those first and last names. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.librador.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
