The proper format is:

"friendly name" <email address>

For example:

"Joe Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

So, even though the email address does not have the quotes, most servers allow this as 
the friendly name.

Regards,

Howie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Justin MacCarthy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "inFusion Support List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 9:02 AM
Subject: [iMS] valid FROM header


> Hi, all. Hope you all u stateside folks had a good 4th of July.
> 
> 
> Can someone tell if this is a valid FROM header?
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> 
> AFAIK According to RFC 822,
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Random User
> or, for that matter,
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Random User"
> and even
> Random <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User
> are acceptable.
> 
> Thanks 
> Justin 
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