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Old February 17th 06, 09:48 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook
Jonas
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Default Empty From: field

Brian Tillman wrote:
What Thunderbird shows has no bearing on it at all. Whoever sent the
message wanted a blank "From" name nd that what s/he sent, apparently.
Outlook uses the value in quotes, if they exist, as the string that
shows in its From field. It's the way Outlook is designed to work.


Ok. I see, but the main problem is when I hit the reply button on a mail
with a blank "" name Outlook doesn't put the mail address in the address
field. But the mail address comes up in the message body like this:
-----Original Message-----
From: ]
Sent: den 14 februari 2006 15:48
To: Forsberg Jonas
Subject: Testing

Shouldn't Outlook pickup the mailaddress even if the user has a "" as name?

Cheers
Jonas
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