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ELM [version 2.4 PL22]
Mailer::1.0 [Perl?]
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XFMail 1.3 [p0] on Linux
So what percentage is that out of all the email you have? Is there a
tapering off by year?
and I gave up looking after a bit.
And it continues to this day.
$ readlink -e `which mail`
/usr/bin/heirloom-mailx
$ mail ralph <$N
No message, no subject; hope that's ok
$ fgrep From: /var/spool/mail/ralph
From: ralph(_at_)inputplus(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk (Ralph Corderoy)
That looks like you set that directly with the "from" variable.
I seem to vaguely recall being a bit surprised when seeing the `Foo Bar
<foo(_at_)bar(_dot_)com>' instead and wondering how legal it was. ;-) So
there
must have been a transition at some point.
Looking back ... in RFC 822, you had two options:
mailbox = addr-spec ; simple address
/ phrase route-addr ; name and addr-spec
Where:
addr-spec = local-part "@" domain
route-addr = "<" [route] addr-spec ">"
RFC 733 has similar ABNF. It's worth noting that all of the examples
I've seen in RFC 733 and RFC 822 are in the "modern" form; it looks
like the other form was never recommended. Also, the author of RFC 733
seemed to be a fan of Mad Magazine.
However, your point is well taken; I'll keep it in mind whenever I get
around to working on this hypothetical new parser :-/
--Ken
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