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From: jidanni@jidanni.org
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Address `questions‌@panoramio.com' might be bogus.  Continue? (y or n)
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:18:17 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tyhdh7h2.fsf@jidanni.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vd1th8ve.fsf@jidanni.org>

> Address `questions‌@panoramio.com' might be bogus.  Continue? (y or n)  y

> Better have the message say why: Silly user name? Invisible character in
> the address? Etc.

And indeed, it turned out to be an invisible character.

<=?utf-8?Q?questions=E2=80=8C?=@panoramio.com>: host
    aspmx.l.google.com[74.125.155.27] said: 550-5.1.1 The email account that
    you tried to reach does not exist. Please try 550-5.1.1 double-checking the

        character: ‌ (8204, #o20014, #x200c)
preferred charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646))
       code point: 0x200C
           syntax: . 	which means: punctuation
      buffer code: #xE2 #x80 #x8C
        file code: #xE2 #x80 #x8C (encoded by coding system utf-8)
          display: by this font (glyph code)
    xft:-unknown-FreeSans-normal-normal-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1 (#x8EF)

OK, well it looked fine to me. Gnus should "warn me of the dangers",
saying next time:

Address `questions‌@panoramio.com' (questions=E2=80=8C@...) might be bogus.  Continue? (y or n)



  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-13  2:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-13  1:48 jidanni
2011-01-13  2:18 ` jidanni [this message]
2011-01-14 21:41 ` Tommy Kelly
2011-01-15 20:15   ` Reiner Steib
2011-01-15 20:25     ` Tommy Kelly
2011-01-15 22:40     ` Rupert Swarbrick
2011-01-16  5:04     ` jidanni
2011-01-19 21:35     ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-01-22 19:12       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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