Help! I can't send any emails

[Mr. Bone]

I have an internal mail server at work, but we don't use
the ".com" extention (ex. johndoe@sales). Outlook
automatically pops up the "Check Names" box and
says "Microsoft Office Outlook does not recognize
johndoe@sales". Then it has a box with "suggestions",
but that's blank. I checked under tools>options>email
options>advanced email options and the "automatic name
check" box is unchecked. I guess what I'm asking is, is
there a way to get around this? I know there was a way
to do it with Office XP, but I no longer have Office XP
and I don't remember the steps or even know if it would
work with 2003. HELP ME PLEASE!

 

[Jeff Stephenson [MSFT]]

An address such as johndoe@sales is not a valid Internet address, so Outlook
cannot send to it. All addresses for Internet mail types have to have a
valid domain (the stuff on the right side of the '@'), and a valid domain
has to have at least two parts separated by a '.'.

 

[Brian Tillman]

An address such as johndoe@sales is not a valid Internet address,

However, some mail clients will automatically add the rest of the local
domain. For example, if I send a message to johndoe@somemachine on our
internal network using an Email client I use, the address becomes
(e-mail address removed) before being sent to the router.