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XFOR: Unable to Handle Names Containing Equal Sign ("=")

Article ID: 160143

Article Last Modified on 9/30/2003

Microsoft Commercial Internet System 1.0 Service Pack 2

This article was previously published under Q160143

SUMMARY

Internet Mail Server (IMS) does not handle names containing an equal sign ("="); for example: x=x@domain.com.

STATUS

This is correct behavior. RFC 822 supports special characters; however, "=" is not a special character.

Additional query words: ip addresses

Keywords: KB160143