On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Mikel Lindsaar wrote:
The reason they put this [bug] in is to handle a bug in Apple Mail.app
which was not quoting the From field correctly if it contained a @
symbol. This has been fixed in subsequent revisions of Mail.app.
Mail.app is catastrophically bad at letting a user's syntax errors leak
through into 822 and 821 address fields. (It also retrys in the face of
a permanent syntax error, without any time limit or frequency back-off.)
Breaking your code to accommodate its lameness is foolish.
Tony.
--
f.a.n.finch <dot(_at_)dotat(_dot_)at> http://dotat.at/
FAEROES SOUTHEAST ICELAND: NORTHWESTERLY VEERING SOUTHEASTERLY 6 TO GALE 8,
PERHAPS SEVERE GALE 9 LATER. ROUGH OR VERY ROUGH. WINTRY SHOWERS, THEN RAIN OR
SLEET. MODERATE OR GOOD, OCCASIONALLY POOR LATER.