>>>>> "TP" == Tom Perrine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
TP> I recently started using PGP, and noticed that I could not send mail
TP> to one particular user; PGP suddenly couldn't find his key when the
TP> to line had been expanded by BBDB.
TP> The user's PGP was in the form:
TP> First I. Last <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
TP> and BBDB insisted on expanding this as
TP> "First I. Last" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
TP> adding the quotes around the user's name.
TP> This caused the PGP key lookup to fail for this user.
TP> This expansion is *incorrect*, but common. RFC 822 has commonly been
TP> mis-interpreted in the past to require
TP> mailbox = addr-spec ; simple address
TP> / WORD route-addr ; name & addr-spec
TP> ^^^^
TP> as all of the examples in the RFC follow this convention, but the RFC
TP> actually says:
TP> mailbox = addr-spec ; simple address
TP> / phrase route-addr ; name & addr-spec
TP> ^^^^^^
TP> phrase = 1*word ; Sequence of words
TP> ^^^^^^^^
TP> word = atom / quoted-string
But let me just add a few lines more from that very same RFC 822:
atom = 1*<any CHAR except specials, SPACE and CTLs>
specials = "(" / ")" / "<" / ">" / "@" ; Must be in quoted-
/ "," / ";" / ":" / "\" / <"> ; string, to use
/ "." / "[" / "]" ; within a word.
I.e. you are not allowed to have a dot in a word, never ever.
Too bad, by the way, I think the quoting makes names ugly.
/David, reading RFC 959, but they are in the same dir anyway
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