[imp] Can anyone replicate this unusual error?

[Rich Lafferty]

On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 12:34:15PM -0600, Karl Wyant (karl@saturnsys.com) wrote:
> When sending out to multiple users, if a semicolon is used to 
> separate the values instead of a comma,  yeah I know that only the 
> Outlook Zombies would even consider doing such a thing, that IMP 
> seems to send out a malformed warning message in which it attempts to 
> send a warning to:
> 
> INVALID_ADDRESS@.SYNTAX-ERROR
> 
> Which of course generates an Invalid host name error message.
> 
> I'll send all of the details of my setup if that is required to debug 
> this... but it is my guess that others will be able to easily 
> replicate the error.

It's in the FAQ. It's not a *bug*, it's a real error message used
instead of an empty string and silent failure.

  -Rich

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