I only run into this with one person running an MSN.com account.
I'm certain that I won't be able to get him to change his human
readable "real name" part. I'm even more certain that I won't
be able to get MSN.com to adhere to the standard.
I think my options are:
- Fix the issue by hand, which is what I'm doing now. There is
not much traffic of this kind where I'm at, so this isn't too
much trouble.
- Alter the replyfilter perl script to legalize real names. I
haven't looked. But, I have perl skills and might do this.
It's not a high priority. But, if I do, then I'll submit a
patch.
- Adopt any forthcoming nmh patch. I have skills to build code
and would use a patch, should one emerge.
At least I have it confirmed that the real names containing dots
(perhaps other characters too?) are not adhering to the standard(s).
Thanks....
On 31 August 2015 at 13:01, Jeffrey Honig <jch(_at_)honig(_dot_)net> wrote:
I run into this at work, primarily from a co-worker running Mutt. While I
pointed out that this is not valid and pointed to the spec, he has not
fixed it as it does not break for anyone else.
How hard would it be to enhance the code to not error out in this
situation. There is a valid e-mail address present.
"Be conservative in what you send and liberal in what you accept"
Thanks
Jeff
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On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Ken Hornstein <kenh(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com>
wrote:
From: first.last <emailname(_at_)msn(_dot_)com>
produce an error like this:
repl: bad addresses:
first.last <emailname(_at_)msn(_dot_)com> -- no at-sign after
local-part (<)
That is, technically, not a valid address. The 'real name' part should
contain quotes around it. Although I thought we silently fixed those
up, and have done so for a very long time ... but that code might only
deal with a trailing '.' on a phrase (like Mr Foo P. Bar).
--Ken
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