[Gllug] Square brackets [OT]

Richard Huxton dev at archonet.com
Thu Jun 9 15:07:57 UTC 2005


Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Ashley Evans wrote:
> 
> 
>>I've no idea how these address came to exist in Outlook anyway.
> 
> 
> I just tested this in Outlook 2003 with Simon Rumble [simon at rumble.net] 
> and it changed the address to the valid Simon Rumble <simon at rumble.net>.  
> Perhaps it was something in older versions of LookOut and that's why it 
> automagically converts them for you?

Outlook 2000 lets you enter all sorts of rubbish into the address-field 
and will try to send it too. Sample: £$%^*&aaron.com

Presumably there's an exchange-server addressing mode that lets you use 
arbitrary names.
-- 
   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd

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