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Text Surrounding "@" Character Is Considered an E-mail Address

Article ID: 154345

Article Last Modified on 6/24/2004

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SYMPTOMS

When you view a message in Internet Mail or Internet News, if there is an "@" character in the text it is considered an e-mail address.

CAUSE

Whenever Internet Mail or Internet News detects an "@" character, it considers the text surrounding the character to be an e-mail address and treats it as such.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Internet Mail and News version 1.0. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

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