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Re: unquoted period in display-name in address field?
From: |
Robert Elz |
Subject: |
Re: unquoted period in display-name in address field? |
Date: |
Wed, 05 May 2021 02:30:31 +0700 |
Date: Tue, 04 May 2021 16:58:43 +0300
From: Greg Minshall <minshall@umich.edu>
Message-ID: <30139.1620136723@apollo2.minshall.org>
| Eric Allman had already written sendmail, i think,
Yes. And delivermail before that.
| which presumably parsed.
Not really. It was able to extract the operational part
of the address (so it could be rewritten), but did not care a
lot beyond that - it had to cope with mail from all different
kinds of systems, after all. No guarantee of rfc822 formatting.
kre