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Kim - 10 Feb 2004 17:32 GMT

When addressing an email, if the sender inadvertently
types a special character after a ; after a recipient's
name, it resolves that special character to my name and I
receive the email.
Any idea what might be causing this?
thanks,
Kim

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Sue Mosher [MVP] - 12 Feb 2004 13:14 GMT

What special character? Outlook version?

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> When addressing an email, if the sender inadvertently
> types a special character after a ; after a recipient's
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> thanks,
> Kim

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Kim - 12 Feb 2004 16:12 GMT

Any special character.

Outlook XP SP2
Exchange Server 2000

When I first started receiving these messages I thought
that someone just picked my name by mistake but after
about the 5th time it happened I figured something must be
up. We finally figured out it was the special character.

thanks Sue
Kim

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Sue Mosher [MVP] - 12 Feb 2004 18:50 GMT

Examples? I don't know what you mean by a special character. Is this
happening with one sender or all?

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- 13 Feb 2004 13:40 GMT

ksteininger@mnat.com;[
ksteininger@mnat.com;*
ksteininger@mnat.com;,

This happens to all senders with me always being the
unintended recipient.

thanks,
Kim

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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 18 Feb 2004 22:30 GMT

Very curious. I can't duplicate the problem. If you create a message on your
machine and click the Check Names button, what happens to the extra
character?

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> ksteininger@mnat.com;[
> ksteininger@mnat.com;*
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> character. Is this
> >happening with one sender or all?

> >> Any special character.
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- 24 Feb 2004 12:53 GMT

It resolves to my name. Very curious is right!

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