Email address FormatException

[Marcus Michaels]

Hi folks,

I am recently experiencing an issue, where correctly formatted email
addresses can not be passed to the MailAddress constructor.

I use a string variable to assign he address and the code breaks with a
FormatException thrown.

I saw other posts referring to issues in the web.config, but I have no issues.
Most addresses are fine, but the ones throwing an exception can be added as
text directly and worj fine.

A sample

dim e as string
e="(e-mail address removed)"

Dim objMail As MailMessage = New MailMessage
objMail.To.Add(e)

the statemet above fires the error.

Dim objMail As MailMessage = New MailMessage
objMail.To.Add("(e-mail address removed)")

works perfectly though.

Any hints???

Marcus