Re: BUG in OE6 where recipents displayed name contains a comma!

From: Robert Aldwinckle (robald_at_techemail.com)
Date: 06/19/04 

Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 14:32:06 -0400

> I've googled around but was not able to find anything similar!?!?

I have commented about this before.

Google Groups search:
    "address book" comma author:aldwinckle group:microsoft.*

Here is my latest reply:

<latest excerpt>
I commented on this UI deficiency a while ago:

news:%23jYLVTE6DHA.1596@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl
Subject: Re: Duplicate Addressees
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 16:53:35 -0500

<excerpt>
choose an addressee whose display name includes a comma
and start typing it. It may match but it won't be an underlined match.
So if you click on the To: button to open the Address book you will see
that that addressee's display name has been incorrectly listed as two
unknown names.
</excerpt>

Unless you have a name like that in your address book
which can be matched (fully underlined) you would see
your symptom.
</latest excerpt>

BTW links such as the above news: link usually work with Google Groups.
Unfortunately because a character in that link I gave is escaped
Google Groups misses an opportunity to create a link to its own
copy of that post. The post is included in the results of that search
I suggested but if you prefer you can use this repaired version:

< http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=%23jYLVTE6DHA.1596%40TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl >

The problem is that the percent sign is escaped as well which means
that the 23 won't be converted into a #. So the repair is to delete the
25 for the escaped percent sign from the link that Google provides:

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=%2523jYLVTE6DHA.1596%40TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl

HTH

Robert Aldwinckle 

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"ts" <someone@microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:uACQ4dTVEHA.2828@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Hi all,
>
> I've observed a problem with Outlook Express v6.0 which results in the
> infamous error message:
> "Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. Possible causes for
> this include server problems, network problems, or a long period of
> inactivity. Subject 'Whatever...', Account: 'myaccount@mydomain.net',
> Server: '123.456.789.012', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Error
> Number: 0x800CCC0F"
>
> The error message manifests itself when I'm trying to send an email to
> someone which has a comma-sign in its displayed name.
> This occurs if I'm replying someone with an address of the form 'Gates,
> Bill' or if that person is stored in that format in my address book.
>
> If I send an email to a person with the address in such a format, I get the
> error message shown above. If I go to the outbox folder, I see the failed
> email. If I open it up I see that the field "To:" now has two recipents
> 'Gates Bill' and 'Bill'.
>
> Now, if I modify the recipent's displayed name by excluding the comma sign -
> everything works ok!
>
> This sure must be a bug in OE6. Is it a known one? I've googled around but
> was not able to find anything similar!?!?
>
> Here you are MS ;-)
>
> /TS
>
>
>