Re: rcd-mail.el Emacs package for GNU Mailutils "mail"

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> ha escrit:

> Thanks, there is no problem now. I can send emails with comma. Though
> I did not understand why it did not work.

The reason was two-fold.  First, if you use in command line a recipient
email that contains personal part, you need to quote it, otherwise it
will be treated as two addresses instead of one.  E.g. when sending mail
to "Sherlock Holmes, esq." <holmes@example.com>, you'd do:

  mail "\"Sherlock Holmes, esq.\" <holmes@example.com>"

That's what the patch to rcd-mail.el does.

Secondly, when parsing multiple addresses, mail was erroneously removing
quotes surrounding personal parts, thereby exposing their texts (and
eventual commas) to the parser.  This is what the commit b6818d6d3c
fixed.

Regards,
Sergey