I had this exact problem and in my case it was user error. When you copy and
paste an address, sometimes you can bring the quotes along.
JES
>On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 01:47:26AM +0000, Sam wrote:
>>
>> Adam McKenna writes:
>>
>> > I am investigating a problem on our local lan. The problem seems to
stem
>> > from netscape sending RCPT TO: lines in the following manner:
>> >
>> > RCPT TO: <'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'>
>> >
>> > The qmail server responds:
>> >
>> > Sorry, I couldn't find any host named flounder.net'. (#5.1.2)
>> >
>> > I am pretty sure that Netscape is violating RFC 822 by sending single
quotes
>> > inside the brackets, but I can't find the specific part of the RFC that
>> > specifies that only double quotes should be used.
>>
>> There's no mention of single quotes anywhere in RFC822, therefore they
>> should not be treated as anything special, so this is interpreted as an
>> address 'adam on host flounder.net', and, since flounder.net' is an
>> invalid domain address, the recipient is rejected.
>>
>> Having said that, I've never seen Messenger act this way. Forget about
>> RFCs, something's screwy in Messenger.
>
>I'm thinking it maybe was user error. I don't know though. If the guy
asks
>again why his mail is being rejected I'll tell him to delete those
>addressbook entries and re-create them.
>
>--Adam
>
