Swiss email address.

[tonybaron]

I met a friend while travelling and only got their swiss email address and first name. Since returning home i can't get the email address to work - [email protected]. Does anyone know the following:-
1. should i just be able to send an email to this address from a uk email address?
2. Is Fueuer likely to be her surname or does the word have a swiss meaning?
3. Is there anyway that you can search the address on bluemail for account holders details or similar email addresses in case i have mis-spelt something?

Maybe helpful for a swiss(german)/english speaker to help me as the bluemail website is not in english!!

[vehelpfulguy]

Well firstly I dont think you should put her real e-mail address in here (hopfully you have changed an important letter in the address and it is not her real address).

If it IS her real address she may get swamped with spam and juink mail.

Secondly, it could be one of the letters has some "extra" notation (umlaut), like the U in this picture:

http://www.blss.portsmouth.sch.uk/resources/pi cs/u_umlat.jpg

You should be able to type this special character with a UK keyboard.

[vehelpfulguy]

Also it is almost impossible to search an ISP like bluemail and get a list of all their addresses.

If you could do this then the people who send out spam would just use their automated programs to search the lists and generate hundreds or thousands of e-mail addresses to send more of their junk to.

[kempie]

Could be Fuehrer which is both a surname and means "leader" in German.

btw in German placing an "e" after the vowels "a", "o" and "u" is an alternative to using an umlaut...

ae = �
oe = �
ue = �