Package: gnus
Version: 5.11+v0.5.dfsg-3
Severity: minor

Outgoing e-mail from me tends to have From: lines like,

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark T.B. Carroll)

My reading of the RFCs is that in this case the bracketed name is a comment.

However, RFC 2822 recommends that instead they should be like,

From: name <address>

For more, see section 3.4 of RFC 2822, "Address Specification",

"comments generally SHOULD NOT be used in address fields"

It may or may not be relevant that I have,
(setq gnus-confirm-treat-mail-like-news t)
in my .gnus.el.

-- Mark


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Architecture: i386 (i686)
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Versions of packages gnus depends on:
ii  emacs21                       21.4a+1-3  The GNU Emacs editor
ii  make                          3.81-3     The GNU version of the "make" util
ii  ucf                           2.0020     Update Configuration File: preserv

gnus recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
* gnus/upgrade/pre_5.9.0: true


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