In message <de5c04ec4e.colin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Colin Granville <colin.granville@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In message <e708d9eb4e.Andrew Pin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Andrew Pinder <Andrew.Pinder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > In message <4EEBD0897E%andy-l@xxxxxxxxxx> > > on 31 May 2007 Andy Wingate <andy-l@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > (From Iyonix Support) > >> Andrew: please can you remove the hard spaces from your Message-IDs? I > >> guess you have a hard space between Andrew and Pin in your username in > >> Messenger Pro. > > > That does seem to be the case. At this distance of time I can't > > remember a good reason for putting in hard spaces. However under > > Choices --> User management there only seems to be the option of > > editing the email address and the Real name. Is it safe to create a > > new User name and delete the old one? Will I lose access to old > > emails? > > Deleting the User name *will* lose all your emails. > > Altering it manually by modifying !Newsdir and possibly netfetch is > not an easy task - many files may need changing. > > I'll modify MPro to filter the offending characters and send you a > copy. Just an idea: Create new user move all mail from old one to new one's inbox etc. Delete old user Won't that do the trick? -- Herbert Herbert zur Nedden German Archimedes Group http://www.gag.de Herausgeber DER deutschen RISC OS-Zeitschrift. --- To alter your preferences or leave the group, visit //www.freelists.org/list/iyonix-support Other info via //www.freelists.org/webpage/iyonix-support