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Javamail Sending Failed due to Apostrophe in Sender Address

843834Jun 16 2010 — edited Jun 16 2010

Hi,

I am having difficulties getting an email to send through Javamail when there is an apostrophe in the email. If one of the senders is e'mail@address for example the InternetAddress constructor will add an extra apostrophe to the email address and say Recipient Unknown and then throw an exception.

Code:

message.addRecipient(javax.mail.Message.RecipientType.TO, new InternetAddress(toarray));Exception:
javax.mail.SendFailedException: Invalid Addresses;
  nested exception is:
	class com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPAddressFailedException: 550 <e''mail@address.com>, Recipient unknown
	at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.rcptTo(SMTPTransport.java:1141)
	at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.sendMessage(SMTPTransport.java:536)

Debug Information:
DEBUG SMTP: Invalid Addresses
DEBUG SMTP:   e''mail@address.com
DEBUG SMTP: Sending failed because of invalid destination addresses

Does anyone have any ideas on how I can get around this issue and allow apostrope's and perhaps other characters that should be allowed in email addresses?

Thanks
Alex

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