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[Peter Peters]

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hermit921 wrote on 16-3-2006 17:17:

> I got a little more information late yesterday.  If there is a
> syntactically valid email address after the (), the message is
> accepted.  So just the presence of () is not the complete criteria.
> From: brgg    works
> From: (brgg)   fails
> From: (brgg) berby at sony.com   works
> The Exchange people here are trying to figure out if they can do
> anything about this.

In this case Exchange seems to be correct. A From: header can't be
empty. Although it can contain an empty address (<>). The () denotes a
comment so From: (dfdfa) is identical to just From:.

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Peter Peters, senior beheerder (Security)
Dienst Informatietechnologie, Bibliotheek en Educatie (ITBE)
Universiteit Twente,  Postbus 217,  7500 AE  Enschede
telefoon: 053 - 489 2301, fax: 053 - 489 2383, http://www.utwente.nl/itbe
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