> > someone correct me if im wrong but doesn't the "From= " line
> > have to have a valid email address such as:
> > FROM="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and cant have a name like:
> > FROM="JAY PATTON"? i think i ran into a problem like this a
> > while ago.?!?.
>
> Not quite. It doesn't have to be valid, or an email address,
> but it CAN'T contain a space... so
>
> from="Jay_Patton"
>
> would work.
While CF won't throw an error on an invalid FROM attribute, I'd strongly
recommend that you always specify a valid email address. If not, some odd
things will happen. Mail servers receiving the messages, for example, will
often append their own domain to the address. If someone attempts to reply
to the message, that address will obviously be invalid, and will cause the
postmaster of that mail server to have to deal with lots of annoying error
messages. That postmaster will justifiably be angry, and may block further
mail from the original sender.
Having been on both ends of this (as both a sender and receiver of
incorrectly-labeled mail), I can confirm that it's a big annoyance.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
voice: (202) 797-5496
fax: (202) 797-5444
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