At 17:50 2002-12-29 -0500, fleet(_at_)teachout(_dot_)org did say:
On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, David W. Tamkin wrote:
> It's definitely not the list software, because I see Sean's From: line as
> "address (name)," but it could be poff's MTA.
... as does the searchable archive *AND* my own received copies of messages
from the procmail list (which includes several other users with similarly
formatted address lines). All rather moot - the point being that there are
several presentation formats for an address and comment, and assuming one
specific layout is ill advised.
And I see it as name <address>. I'm using pine.
Which is an MUA. View your mailboxes (before entering pine) using your
system pager and see whether the addresses are formatted the same. Be sure
to view a newly recieved message, which has arrived since the last time you
used pine on the mailbox, just in case Pine is rewriting the mailbox when
it opens it (ick - I can't imagine it doing that, but just in case).
I could more readily expect an MUA to change the appearance of an address,
whereas an MTA really has no business _changing_ parts of the message if
they're syntactically correct to begin with. It's one thing for an MTA to
tweak something to bring it in line with standards (adding a Message-ID or
a Date: for instance), but changing other headers is just plain evil.
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Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering
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Please DO NOT carbon me on list replies. I'll get my copy from the list.
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