Last week I blogged the appearance of a new version of Google's Gmail while complaining that I didn't have it. I do now. I noticed immediately because one of my most used addresses stopped working properly. It turns out that Gmail's new Contacts software has a problem with the address that Gmail itself entered for the Guardian's very own Stuart O'Connor.
Gmail looks at his valid email address in Contacts and says, in red: "Please enter a valid email address." It refuses to save it.
Sending an email, I get the sage advice: "Please make sure that email addresses contain no spaces and exactly one @ sign."
It turns out that when I mail Stuart and Bobbie Johnson together, Gmail is throwing in a spare "stua" plucked out of thin air. Maybe it's a random bug from the Ajax code, which is running in thin air. Later, I'll see if it survives a restart....
Has anyone else noticed a problem that could be related to having an apostrophe or other less common character in an email address?
