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- From: madison@tgv.com (Matt Madison)
- Subject: Re: VMS MAIL personal names / From: lines
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.180644.7227@news.arc.nasa.gov>
- Sender: usenet@news.arc.nasa.gov
- Reply-To: madison@tgv.com
- Organization: The Foundation for Dinner Peas
- References: <009637ED.147E5980.12538@EIMONI.TUWIEN.AC.AT>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 18:06:44 GMT
- Lines: 24
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- In article <009637ED.147E5980.12538@EIMONI.TUWIEN.AC.AT>, Franz Schoenbauer <system@EIMONI.TUWIEN.AC.AT> writes:
- >A minor question still: what do i have to do to reverse the
- >order of appearence, i.e. instead of
- >
- >From: Franz Schoenbauer <system@EIMONI.TUWIEN.AC.AT>
- >
- >i'd like to have
- >
- >From: system@EIMONI.TUWIEN.AC.AT (Franz Schoenbauer)
- >
- >Is this to be done in MX or in VMSmail ?
-
- It cannot be done. The format the MX uses is the correct one; the other
- is an older format which is now being discouraged. The reason for that
- is that the leading phrase on the newer format is specifically for a
- personal name, and gateways between SMTP and other mail systems know that
- and can propagate the personal name correctly. In the older form, the comment
- following the address is just a comment - any number of which may appear in
- an address - and can't necessarily be identified as a personal name.
-
- -Matt
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