What version of surgemail are you using? 

As of version 5.0n-10 I believe there should be no problem with other email clients responding to messages generated with surgeweb using a from address with commas in them - they will of course have your building abbreviation in them.

Currently there is no feature to query that directly no... but you should able able to use a fairly straight forward search through the _user.dat files if you wanted. I've not tried it myself but using some unix command line magic or search utility search for:

      surgemail/surgeweb/work/*/*/*/*/_user.dat

files containing

      "pref_reply" and "," on same line.

Let me know if you do not get anywhere and I'll run some tests myself.

Marijn

PS the "tellmail find_user ..." command queries the authent database for field/value pairs but I did not seem to be able to make it work for finding commas, not sure why without going hunting in the source code ;-(

On Wednesday 19/01/2011 at 10:07 am, surgemail-list@netwinsite.com wrote:

Okay so here's my issue. For years when we created new users we would enter their full name into the "full name" field along with their assigned building abbreviation separated by a comma. 

Fast forward to the time of surgeweb and now the contents of the Full Name field is used in Surgeweb's account preferences to populate the "Reply name / address:" field. That's great and all except now we have a comma stored in that field which wreaks havoc on some mail programs when they receive an email from those users. When someone attempts to "reply" to the user their mail client (Outlook mostly) creates a malformed address.

So...

Is there a way for me to query the "Full Name" field to find all users who have a comma? 

Thanks in advance

Scott