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Leigh Heydon
Dear All,
I am using Outlook 2000 SP3 in IMO.
When I reply to an e-mail, Outlook sometimes adds spaces to the address
of the recipient of the reply. Because I add all senders to my address
book automatically, the compose window only shows the name of the
person, rather than the raw e-mail address. So I have unintentionally
been sending replies to invalid addresses and, worse still, for some
reason they do NOT even return bounce messages. So who knows how many
messages I have sent that have vanished, and I have assumed the
recipient is ignoring them.
An example is: (e-mail address removed)
Becomes: Someone@Internet. Com
1. Does anyone know why Outlook might be doing this, and a possible
fix?!
2. In the meantime, what are the wildcards to do a search in my Sent
Items folder for 'To' fields containing a space in the e-mail address?
I want to search the addresses only, not the name part (which often
contains valid spaces).
3. As a temporary workaround, can I force Outlook to always display the
e-mail address in the 'To' field of a message I am composing, rather
than showing it as a name if a matching name exists in my addressbook?
Actually, I've just examined this further and worked out more
specifically what I think is happening:
1. I send a message to (e-mail address removed) for the first time ever.
2. Outlook automatically adds this person to my addressbook (which I
like). But if there is no name value (eg: John Smith
<[email protected]>) in the e-mail address and instead is just
(e-mail address removed) (which is how it would be if I'd typed their raw
address for the first time, OR they haven't configured their mail
program to add a name value, rather just use their e-mail address
itself as the name), then Outlook tries to extrapolate a name for the
addressbook entry, based on the raw e-mail address. So based on the
position of full stops (periods) or something, it creates an
addressbook entry with:
First name: Someone@Internet
Second name: .Com
E-mail: (e-mail address removed)
3. Note that the e-mail address is still CORRECT at this point (I've
double-checked this).
4. But when I then select this contact as a recipient of a message, for
some reason Outlook IGNORES the 'e-mail address' field and instead
inserts the name (first + second), which is obviously not a valid
e-mail address.
5. Even worse, because Outlook normally converts a raw address you type
in the 'To' field into the name if it finds a matching addressbook
entry, I don't even know that it has made the mistake (because even if
it WAS using the e-mail field correctly, it would still show a name
which I'd expect to be somewhat nonsensical if it had extracted it from
an address as per step 2).
I hope this makes sense, it's late as I type this.
Thanks in advance for any assistance, this is quite a serious problem
considering the potential for lost correspondence plus blissful
ignorance.
Leigh Heydon
_____________________________________________________________________
Leigh Heydon
E-mail: (e-mail address removed)
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_____________________________________________________________________
I am using Outlook 2000 SP3 in IMO.
When I reply to an e-mail, Outlook sometimes adds spaces to the address
of the recipient of the reply. Because I add all senders to my address
book automatically, the compose window only shows the name of the
person, rather than the raw e-mail address. So I have unintentionally
been sending replies to invalid addresses and, worse still, for some
reason they do NOT even return bounce messages. So who knows how many
messages I have sent that have vanished, and I have assumed the
recipient is ignoring them.
An example is: (e-mail address removed)
Becomes: Someone@Internet. Com
1. Does anyone know why Outlook might be doing this, and a possible
fix?!
2. In the meantime, what are the wildcards to do a search in my Sent
Items folder for 'To' fields containing a space in the e-mail address?
I want to search the addresses only, not the name part (which often
contains valid spaces).
3. As a temporary workaround, can I force Outlook to always display the
e-mail address in the 'To' field of a message I am composing, rather
than showing it as a name if a matching name exists in my addressbook?
Actually, I've just examined this further and worked out more
specifically what I think is happening:
1. I send a message to (e-mail address removed) for the first time ever.
2. Outlook automatically adds this person to my addressbook (which I
like). But if there is no name value (eg: John Smith
<[email protected]>) in the e-mail address and instead is just
(e-mail address removed) (which is how it would be if I'd typed their raw
address for the first time, OR they haven't configured their mail
program to add a name value, rather just use their e-mail address
itself as the name), then Outlook tries to extrapolate a name for the
addressbook entry, based on the raw e-mail address. So based on the
position of full stops (periods) or something, it creates an
addressbook entry with:
First name: Someone@Internet
Second name: .Com
E-mail: (e-mail address removed)
3. Note that the e-mail address is still CORRECT at this point (I've
double-checked this).
4. But when I then select this contact as a recipient of a message, for
some reason Outlook IGNORES the 'e-mail address' field and instead
inserts the name (first + second), which is obviously not a valid
e-mail address.
5. Even worse, because Outlook normally converts a raw address you type
in the 'To' field into the name if it finds a matching addressbook
entry, I don't even know that it has made the mistake (because even if
it WAS using the e-mail field correctly, it would still show a name
which I'd expect to be somewhat nonsensical if it had extracted it from
an address as per step 2).
I hope this makes sense, it's late as I type this.
Thanks in advance for any assistance, this is quite a serious problem
considering the potential for lost correspondence plus blissful
ignorance.
Leigh Heydon
_____________________________________________________________________
Leigh Heydon
E-mail: (e-mail address removed)
(remove the SPAMGUARD to reply)
_____________________________________________________________________