On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 02:14:30PM +0100, Peter Ford wrote: > Hi, > > One of my users set his From: address in his mail client (mozilla, I think) to > put a colon character in the real name bit, so I guess the message headers > were coming in like "From: Real Name: Role <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" > This seems to have caused his message to appear to come from > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (when he replaces ':' with '-' all is well). > Is this something that's documented in RFCs? Or is it a special feature of > Courier (probably both, given Courier's dedication to the RFCs). I don't > recall the descriptive part of an address not allowing ':' although it makes > a kind of sense...
In a header field, a colon MUST be quoted. So if the mail client isn't quoting the colon, then it's buggy. However, I can't comment on courier's behaviour when it encounters an unquoted colon, because I simply don't know. -- Anand Buddhdev Celtel International ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
