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Erik - 22 Nov 2006 19:11 GMT

I am in a unique envinronment that requires that the display name be stripped
from the SMTP header when sent to a remote SMTP server outside the Exchange
organization. For isntance, the remote site should receive only
"jane.doe@domain.com" and not "Doe, Jane <jane.doe@domain.com>". Is there a
way to configure Exchange to do this? Thanks in advance.

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Bharat Suneja [MVP] - 22 Nov 2006 21:26 GMT

Fairly certain this cannot be done natively - may be possible by coding a
transport event sink.

If you look at other mail systems (including web-based ones like gmail and
yahoo), they also send a "display name" along with the email address. RFC
2822 considers this completely normal.

Take a look at this KBA - though not a solution to what you're attempting to
do, but provides some info on address resolution (for inbound mail):
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/288635

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>I am in a unique envinronment that requires that the display name be
>stripped
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> there a
> way to configure Exchange to do this? Thanks in advance.

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Kashif Awan - 24 Nov 2006 06:14 GMT

Dear Erik,

Open Exchange system manager, expand global settings, click internet message
format. In the right pane you will see "Default * date" right click
this entry and take properties, click advanced tab, here you will find an
option " Preserve sender's display name on message, uncheck the option.
You will meet your requirement.

Regards,
Kashif Awan

> I am in a unique envinronment that requires that the display name be stripped
> from the SMTP header when sent to a remote SMTP server outside the Exchange
> organization. For isntance, the remote site should receive only
> "jane.doe@domain.com" and not "Doe, Jane <jane.doe@domain.com>". Is there a
> way to configure Exchange to do this? Thanks in advance.

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Bharat Suneja [MVP] - 24 Nov 2006 20:53 GMT

Thanks - I stand corrected, it's as easy as unchecking that!

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