From: Mike '/m' 

email{at}[123.123.123.123]  is a valid email address everywhere I've tried
except MS Outlook.  There are no special characters in it.  Nice try,
though.

from RFC 2821, section 4.1.3

   4.1.3 Address Literals

   Sometimes a host is not known to the domain name system and
   communication (and, in particular, communication to report and repair
   the error) is blocked.  To bypass this barrier a special literal form
   of the address is allowed as an alternative to a domain name.  For
   IPv4 addresses, this form uses four small decimal integers separated
   by dots and enclosed by brackets such as [123.255.37.2], which
   indicates an (IPv4) Internet Address in sequence-of-octets form.  For
   IPv6 and other forms of addressing that might eventually be
   standardized, the form consists of a standardized "tag" that
   identifies the address syntax, a colon, and the address itself, in a
   format specified as part of the IPv6 standards [17].



When I deleted it as you mention, it goes away only temporarily.  In any
case, why should I, as a user, have to manually delete an item in Outlook's
name cache?  MS Outlook's name caching "service" should handle
that by itself, without me asking.  Besides, Microsoft wants $35 a pop for
me to ask why the program doesn't clear its name cache when it should. 
I'll give you another nice try for that, though.  Plus a bonus point for
trying to increase MS revenue.



  /m



On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 18:07:33 -0700, "Rich"  wrote:

>   An email address with a domain literal like your example
(email{at}[123.123.123.123]) still gets delivered to your SMTP server.  It is
your overloaded email server's responsiblity to route this.  Or maybe you
simply don't know how to enter an address containing special characters. 
In this case it would be [smtp:email{at}\[123.123.123.123\]].
>
>   In regard to deleting your now out of date favorite, did you try pressing
the delete key when the name appears as you type?  It appears not.
>
>   You sure do like to complain alot.  If you don't know how to do something
you might consider an alternative.  It's a pretty popular one.  Ask.
>
>Rich
>
>
>  "Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
news:25ugj1psik6mb69ifo2vfg6u7fg5uapm43{at}4ax.com...
>
>
>  I have not been able to get Outlook to send an email to
>
>     email{at}[123.123.123.123]
>
>  where 123.123.123.123 is the IP address of a email server, and 'email'
>  is a valid email account on that server.  I believe this is an RFC
>  requirement, just like proper SMTP handling.
>
>  Also, I keep nicknames for my friends.  For example, I use bob-w for Bob
>  at work, Bob-h for Bob at home.  Well, Bob changed jobs, so I changed
>  the email address for Bob-w in the address book to his new email
>  address.  Unfortunately, Outlook also stores the email address somewhere
>  else, and insists on sending Bob-w emails to his old email address. I've
>  not found the other location in the address book or configuration
>  options yet.  I now have a NewBob-w entry in the address book to work
>  around this feature.
>
>
>   /m

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