On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 03:37:11PM +0200, Magnus Bodin wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 03:00:12PM +0200, Michael Tatge wrote:
> > Magnus Bodin muttered:
> > > 
> > > As of RFC 821 <http://rfc821.x42.com/> the local part of an e-mail address
> > > can consist of other characters than a-z0-9 and should then be quoted (see
> > > local-part and quoted-string).
> > > 
> > > It seems though, that the mutt client does not support the use of an address
> > > like "address with spaces"@x42.com which indeed is a valid and working
> > > e-mail address. Or is there some way to enter addresses explicitly thus not
> > > having it "parse-mangled".. 
> > 
> > I can send to "test me"@localhost very well.
> > Mutt 1.2.4i
> > sendmail-8.9.3-20
> > 
> > Received: (from t@localhost)
> >         by deep-thought.seidenbergstr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA17385
> >         for "test me"@localhost; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 14:56:45 +0200
> > 
> > Which error do you get?
> 
> 
> Look further down the thread. It is an error that may be qmail-inject
> specific with arguments on the command line. 

And the reason is that mutt sends the address RFC821-encoded. (as per SMTP).

I enter "adress with spaces"@x42.com when I mean 

address with [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Mutt just passes 

"address with spaces"@x42.com 

as the third argument. 

But qmail-inject expects mail addresses UNQUOTED. 

/magnus

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