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- Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!sejnet.sunet.se!eric
- From: eric@sejnet.sunet.se (Eric Thomas)
- Subject: Re: Personal names and RFC-822 addressing
- Message-ID: <1992Oct13.173241.1@sejnet.sunet.se>
- Lines: 36
- Sender: news@sunic.sunet.se
- Reply-To: ERIC@SEARN.SUNET.SE
- Organization: SUNET, Stockholm, Sweden
- References: <00962069.598D8460.20330@swdev.si.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 17:32:41 GMT
-
- In article <00962069.598D8460.20330@swdev.si.com>, "Brian Tillman, Smiths Industries, VAX Support, x8425" writes:
- > Currently, MX (v3.1C) places the VMS personal name in the From: header by
- > enclosing the name in quotes and following that with the Internet-style address
- > enclosed in "angle brackets." I read the RFC and, although I don't understand
- > all I read, it seemed that a more appropriate handling of the personal name
- > would have been to enclose it in parentheses,
-
- A particular syntax was provided in RFC822 for the explicit purpose of carrying
- the user's name:
-
- From: Joe Doe <JOE@DUH.EDU>
-
- The name must be quoted if it contains certain characters, and may always be
- quoted even if it contains only letters and blanks.
-
- The syntax you mention is also valid, since comments can be present anywhere
- and must be ignored (which actually is a royal pain, especially as they can be
- nested - you will find that most software accepts them where they are usually
- present, but not everywhere they are allowed to appear).
-
- > We have
- > a mailer here that is supposedly RFC-compliant that isn't handling the
- > personal name properly and I want to see if parentheses would make a
- > difference.
-
- There is a known bug in certain unix-based mail software which prevents proper
- parsing when parentheses are quoted, as in:
-
- From: "(Joe Doe hides between his parentheses)" <JOE@DUH.EDU>
-
- which is ugly and not something I would generate on purpose, but still valid.
- If the program in question won't handle a plain name, it certainly needs
- fixing as MANY mail programs (I am inclined to say MOST mail programs) generate
- addresses with the angle brackets.
-
- Eric
-