I believe you need to quote the name portion of the e-mail address if it
contains a space:
"billy bob"@ourdomain.net
Bill
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From: "paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 9:30 AM
Subject: [IMail Forum] outgoing question:
> We're running Imail 7.13, awaiting a rebuild on our other server before we
> up to 8. Anyway, here's our "problem". It's not so much a problem to ME, I
> think this should be the case. Anyway:
>
> User, let's say Billy Bob. so his address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] except
> when he set up his mail, he put a space between, so it's set as billy
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] So when he tries to send mail, he gets an invalid
> address, which it correct, and this line is in the SMTP log:
>
> unacceptable mail address in MAIL FROM: <billy [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Now I consider this fine, but my boss says it USED to work. Our relay
> settings are relay for addresses, with our Ip ranges listed. So I would
> think it would work also. Ideas where to look? I don't have a rules file
> set, as currently have Declude doing most of the filtering, and nothing in
> the kill list to suggest anything either. As I said, I feel this is a
> perfectly acceptable error, the email address IS wrong, and to treat it as
a
> legit email address only server to cause problems later on.
>
> Thanks
> Paul
>
>
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