Posted by Kevin on 05/24/05 17:49

Thanks to both of you. That was it. Looks like the authors of the
application got their mail format backwards.

- Kevin

"Alvaro G Vicario" <alvaro_QUITAR_REMOVE@telecomputeronline.com> wrote in
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> *** Kevin wrote/escribi� (Tue, 24 May 2005 09:44:23 -0400):
>> If it sends a message of the format:
>> jsmith@example.com <John Smith>, it arrives with a from line looking like
>> this:
>>
>> From: jsmith@example.com John.Smith@server.domain.com
>
> Whatever you enclose in < > chars is treated as an e-mail address. When
> mail servers find an address that is not a FQDN (fully-qualified domain
> name) they consider it a local recipient and they normally autocomplete
> the
> adress appending server's main domain name.
>
> As Ewoud points you probably mean this:
>
> "John Smith" <jsmith@example.com>
>
>
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