Non-standard email addresses not working (Outlook 2003)

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Peter Hucker

At work, we use Outlook and Outlook Express for email. There is an internal email server, with email addresses such as joe.bloggs@internal - Oultook Express had no problem with this, but Outlook 2003 will not accept it!! It's happy with a something.something after the @, but no dot after the @ and it goes nuts!

For example. I go to add a new contact, enter "Joe Bloggs" in the "Full Name" Field, and enter "joe.bloggs@internal" in the "Email" field, then click "save and close", and I get the stupid message "Microsoft Office Outlook does not recognise "joe.bloggs@internal"", and offers to let me add a new contact, which takes me round in circles!!! I can click cancel at this point, and the contact is added, but if I try to send him an email, it says I must "first enter a valid email address for this contact".

I can get addresses into Outlook if I import an address list in CSV format, but I can't add people with non-standard addresses individually.

Surely there must be a way to turn off email address validation?

I can't even send a one-off email (without adding to contacts) to joe.bloggs@internal - Outlook again "doesn't recognise" it.
 

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