Yeti wrote: > I think hotmail, or was it some other mail mogul, is allowing their > users to have those weird German umlauts and some accented characters. > > EXAMPLE: > umlaut-ä.accent-á@example.com > Anyone who allows 8-bit characters on the left side of the @ is in for trouble. It won't work. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php