I first came across it, trying to email the EAC. Since then, a couple of other official addresses include the asterisk after .com. Now I see a commercial site adding the asterisk after space.com. It would seem that emails sent to such addresses are not delivered, unless I'm doing something utterly stupid. Try to remove the asterisk and lo and behold it comes straight back.
Can any of you Internet wizards tell me how I can send emails to companies that have this blight of .com*? Thank you
.com* question
Re: .com* question
The * is a wildcard symbol that is illegal in a valid email address, so shouldn't be used.
Allowed characters: letters (a-z), numbers, underscores, periods, and dashes.
An underscore, period, or dash must be followed by one or more letter or number.
Tha above is slightly out of date, as unicode characters for Umlauts etc are now allowed, but not the *.
You would use the * if you were adding addresses to a safe senders list, or something like that, but it is invalid in an actual email.
What email client are you using? It sounds like you made a typo and it is picking the typo up as the default, or something.
Allowed characters: letters (a-z), numbers, underscores, periods, and dashes.
An underscore, period, or dash must be followed by one or more letter or number.
Tha above is slightly out of date, as unicode characters for Umlauts etc are now allowed, but not the *.
You would use the * if you were adding addresses to a safe senders list, or something like that, but it is invalid in an actual email.
What email client are you using? It sounds like you made a typo and it is picking the typo up as the default, or something.
Web Designer / Developer. Currently working on Paphos Life.
Living in Polemi, Cyprus with my wife and daughter.
Living in Polemi, Cyprus with my wife and daughter.
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Thank you for your helpful reply, Dominic. I've done a little investigation since I posted my question and have found that the offending item is not an ordinary asterisk but is much higher and bolder than I implied. The attachment shows what it looks like. Am I being even more stupid than usual?
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Re: .com* question
That just looks like it is a menu tag or something. If you hover over it or click it does a box appear or something?
Web Designer / Developer. Currently working on Paphos Life.
Living in Polemi, Cyprus with my wife and daughter.
Living in Polemi, Cyprus with my wife and daughter.
Re: .com* question
Web Designer / Developer. Currently working on Paphos Life.
Living in Polemi, Cyprus with my wife and daughter.
Living in Polemi, Cyprus with my wife and daughter.
Re: .com* question
Okay! Thank you all for your help. It would seem that I may have raised a storm in a teacup – sorry! I think – but am not sure – that the problem applies only to users of Thunderbird but they authors of it have not made it clear. When you see a xxx.com with what looks like a large asterisk after the com it may mean either the address is not in your address book or, maybe, the address simply does not exist. Whatever, it seems to be a harmless adjunct.
