Mailto Problem: SMTP Email Address w/ '&'

[hstockbridge5]

Hi,

My company's Exchange team created a mailbox for our department with an
ampersand in the SMTP e-mail address (e.g. AB******@domain .com.) Is it
possible to create a mailto link that can incorporate (resolve) the
ampersand?

Any help you can lend would be appreciated.

Henry

[Tim]

On 24 Feb 2005 14:58:10 -0800,
"hs***********@ hotmail.com" <hs***********@ hotmail.com> posted:

My company's Exchange team created a mailbox for our department with an
ampersand in the SMTP e-mail address (e.g. AB******@domain .com.) Is it
possible to create a mailto link that can incorporate (resolve) the
ampersand?

I'm wasn't sure whether ampersands were allowed in e-mail addresses, but
RFC2368 indicates they are, and how to use them.

See: <http://www.wu-ftpd.org/rfc/rfc2368.html>
More: <http://www.google.com. au/search?q=RFC+em ail+address+cha racters>

Just briefly, what you need to do to use the ampersand within HTML is
encode it as "&amp;", like this: ABCD&amp;EF*@do main.com

This (encoding ampersands) within HTML is an HTML authoring issue, whatever
the ampersand is used for (in text, in URIs, etc.).

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<hs***********@ hotmail.com> wrote:

My company's Exchange team created a mailbox for our department with an
ampersand in the SMTP e-mail address
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