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Topic: Email review doesn't work
Conf: (P-PDF) Acrobat 7, Msg: 126298
From: Sancho
Date: 1/26/2005 01:21 AM
>e.g. John Smith@ISP.com appears as John and smith@ISP.com
Do I read this correctly that you have an SMTP email address that is "JohnSmith@isp.com"? (substituting an ASCII space character for the ""? If so, that could be your problem right there. RFC-822, the IETF memo that underlies SMTP (the Internet email protocol) specifically says in section 3.4.1:
--- begin quote ---
Note: In particular, quoting is NOT permitted within atoms.
For example when the local-part of an addr-spec must
contain a special character, a quoted string must be
used. Therefore, a specification such as:
Full\ Name@Domain
is not legal and must be specified as:
"Full Name"@Domain
---end quote---
It's possible that a later memo eliminated that restriction, but I doubt it based on what I know about the SMTP mail format generally. So if your routine is passing 'john smith@isp.com' to Outlook and not '"john smith"@isp.com', it's passing in an illegal SMTP address, and if Outlook is parsing the information correctly, then you should get the result you're reporting.
That said, I also have to note that I've seen an oddity about Outlook that I consider a little problematic. Under Windows, when a browser (Netscape or MSIE) encounters an HTML "mailto:" link, Outlook attempts to resolve the string against its address book. This allows web programmers to get away with "mailto:" links like "mailto:Smith, John" on an intranet site (for a while). I suppose there are some good things about this, but prolonging the career of an idiot is not one of them. (Not that this is applicable in your circumstance; it's more of a gripe I have in my own sphere of concern.)
