Specifying valid e-mail addresses

A valid e-mail address entry can be one or more fully qualified Internet addresses separated by commas as specified by RFC 822. For example, a valid entry for two recipients is:

JohnDoe@company.com,"/FredSmith/" <FredSmith@company.com>

The adapter does not resolve personal address aliases, such as the EngineeringDepartment alias defined in a personal address book. However, a valid address can be an alias defined in a mail server, such as EngineeringDepartment or EngineeringDepartment@company.com. In this case, the mail server will decode the alias and send e-mail to all members of the alias.

The e-Mail adapter parses each individual address to check whether its complaint to RFC 822. Examples of valid address entries are:

If an e-mail address requires an at (@) sign, it must be included in the address, since the adapter will not add characters to an e-mail address.

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