[replying to list for archiving purposes] On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 10:02:47 -0600 <slushpupie at gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 08:28:40 -0600, Josh Trutwin > <josh at trutwins.homeip.net> wrote: > > Not really a Linux question, but certainly not off-topic I hope. > > > > I had one of my email users complain about getting rejection > > notices - looking at the original email I notice: > > > > To: <'removed at hotmail.com'> > > > > I think this should be: > > > > To: 'Some name' <removed at hotmail.com> > > > > or just: > > > > To: <removed at hotmail.com> > > > > It looks as if the email addresses are in the Name field in her > > address book (Outhouse client). > > > > I tried finding it in the RFC, but I believe the single quotes > > around the email address are not legal right? My MTA (qmail) is > > trying to send a message to @hotmail.com' - which obviously > > doesn't exist with the single quote at the end. > > You are correct. 'removed is a valid username, but hotmail.com' is > not a valid domain. RFC-821 and RFC-822 are what you want to look > up. There are two headers to pay attention to. You can have > whatever you want in the message header (which is why spam is so > easy to forge). The envelope headers are important and have a > strict syntax. So either the MUA didnt understand what the user > entered, or the MUA Is broken. With outlook I think both are the > case. Thanks Jay, that's what I expected. Dang Outhouse strikes again! Josh