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- From: jos@bull.nl (Jos Vos)
- Subject: Re: Problem with MH address parser
- Message-ID: <9212160952.AA28154@wilg.bull.nl>
- In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Dec 92 07:18:47 MET."
- <1992Dec16.071847.3949@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
- Lines: 32
- Date: 16 Dec 92 10:11:21 GMT
-
- > I have been having a problem with the MH address parser.
- > Specifically, on some addresses, it gives a bad address when trying to
- > reply:
- >
- > repl: bad addresses:
- > N. R. "Norm" Lunde <norm> -- no at-sign after local-part (Lunde)
- > testformail
- >
- > As far as I can tell, this is a valid address per 822 (but it seems a
- > little vague for this case) and certainly most mailers can deal with
- > it. This is not the only address (or even style of address--with
- > quoted nickname) which gives this problem.
-
- This address IS ILLEGAL! According to RFC822, no dots (and most other
- other special characters) are allowed in that part of the address,
- unless quoted. The following 2 alternatives are legal:
-
- "N. R. Norm Lunde" <norm>
- norm (N.R. "Norm" Lunde)
-
- Luckily MH does NOT support the wrong addresses, so it can not be blamed
- for sending those addresses into the world.
-
- Hope this explains enough.
-
- --
- -- Jos Vos <jos@bull.nl> (UUCP: ...!{uunet,mcsun,sun4nl}!nlbull!jos)
- -- Bull Nederland NV, Product Support Unix, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
-
- --
- -- Jos Vos <jos@bull.nl> (UUCP: ...!{uunet,mcsun,sun4nl}!nlbull!jos)
- -- Bull Nederland NV, Product Support Unix, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
-