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[Robert Brockway]

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On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Rob Unsworth wrote:

> Reply-To: discuss at openoffice.org,
> tcahill.AT&T.geniehomemagic.com at unsworth.net

Looks to me like this was a legitimate post to discuss at openoffice.org by
Timothy Cahill <tcahill at geniehomemagic.com> except he's got his Reply-To:
header is stuffed up.  As it contains no @ character, your MTA has
helpfully appended your domainname concluding that the reply-to address is
supposed to be local.  This is normally configurable MTA behaviour.

I note he also had an & character in the username.  Not actually
prohibited (iirc) but generally bad behaviour.

Rob

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