"Ampersand" in email addresses

[Monomeeth]

Hi All

I hope someone can help me...

I work in a large organisation which a network of 24,000 computers. We use
Outlook and Microsoft Exchange Servers for our email platform. However, I
have come across a problem...

A number of our mailboxes have the ampersand character in the email address
(ie. The '&' character). However, when trying to use a hyperlink to these
addresses, all that appears in the "To:" field in Outlook are the characters
BEFORE the ampersand, and nothing from the ampersand onwards. As a result,
Outlook is unable to recognise the email address!

How do I code the link? I have tried using "&" instead of just "&" in
the HTML code, but this makes no difference.

PLEASE HELP...

Thanks.

Monomeeth.

 

[Kris]

I work in a large organisation which a network of 24,000 computers. We use
Outlook and Microsoft Exchange Servers for our email platform. However, I
have come across a problem...

A number of our mailboxes have the ampersand character in the email address
(ie. The '&' character). However, when trying to use a hyperlink to these
addresses, all that appears in the "To:" field in Outlook are the characters
BEFORE the ampersand, and nothing from the ampersand onwards. As a result,
Outlook is unable to recognise the email address!

How do I code the link? I have tried using "&" instead of just "&" in
the HTML code, but this makes no difference.

Try %26.

Like in <a href="mailto:foo%[email protected]">.

 

[Richard]

Hi All

I hope someone can help me...

I work in a large organisation which a network of 24,000 computers.
We use
Outlook and Microsoft Exchange Servers for our email platform.
However, I
have come across a problem...

A number of our mailboxes have the ampersand character in the email
address
(ie. The '&' character). However, when trying to use a hyperlink to
these
addresses, all that appears in the "To:" field in Outlook are the
characters
BEFORE the ampersand, and nothing from the ampersand onwards. As a
result,
Outlook is unable to recognise the email address!

How do I code the link? I have tried using "&amp;" instead of just
"&" in
the HTML code, but this makes no difference.

PLEASE HELP...

Monomeeth.

I use OE on my PC at home and just tried sending myself mail with & in the
addy.
Worked just fine sending and receiving.
Myhost uses a unix server though.
It's possible that you may have to change some kind of permission in the
server to accept the & and other special characters.