That means your From: (and my From:...) should not have been generated
anymore, because we have two unquoted words in front of the angle-addr?
Ralph didn't include the full RFC grammar, but here are the rules in
relatively plain English:
- A "modern" email address is an optional 'display-name' followed by an
email address surrounded by angle brackets (<>).
- A 'display-name' is really a 'phrase'
- A 'phrase' is one or more 'word' (or an 'obs-phrase', obsolete phrase).
- A 'word' is either an 'atom' or 'quoted-string'
- An atom is one or more 'atext' characters.
- An 'atext' character is basically any printable US-ASCII character,
EXCEPT one of ( ) < > [ ] : ; @ \ , . (this list is called 'specials')
- A 'quoted-string' is one or more printable US-ASCII characters surrounded
by double quotes (there are rules for including a quote in a quoted-string)
So, using these rules, something like:
Ken Hornstein <kenh@xxxx>
Is fine (because the characters in 'Ken Hornstein' are all part of atext).
Something like:
Dr. Ken Hornstein <kenh@xxx>
Is NOT file, not only because I don't have a doctorate, but because the '.'
is not a valid character in atext. It needs to be:
"Dr. Ken Hornstein" <kenh@xxx>
Or it could be:
"Dr." Ken Hornstein <kenh@xxx>
But the email addresses we all use here are valid.
(obs-phrase is an additional wrinkle, but that's another email).
--Ken
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