Robert Aldwinckle wrote:
"Kath Adams" wrote in message

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You must be careful what you choose for after the @

In this case would be ok or




Kath,

"ok" for what purpose? Do you realize that these parenthesized
strings are "comments"? Hence, they may *look* as if they are
unusable but in fact they may work no differently than their uncommented
versions.
Ah. I think I know where you may be getting that idea.

Repost of my comments to Roland in July:

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For another example of what I think must be flawed advice see

http://support.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx

"Use a modified E-mail address"

which apparently suggests (only) putting "munging" in parentheses...

After finding out about "comments" I suspect the examples
are in fact valid and wouldn't have any preventive value at all: ; o
ref
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html

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A.5. White space, comments, and other oddities
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/ref


FYI

Robert
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Robert,
It's always worked ok for me? For example :-

The message could not be sent because one of the recipients was rejected by
the server. The rejected e-mail address was '.
Subject 'test', Account: 'mail.mvps.org', Server: 'mail.mvps.org', Protocol:
SMTP, Server Response: '501 5.5.2 Syntax error in address
', Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 501,
Error Number: 0x800CCC79
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Kath Adams
MS MVP - Windows (Outlook Express)