On 5/16/2011 1:40 PM, R. David Murray wrote:
I've gone through the RFCs and done some additional googling, and haven't been able to confirm the answer to this question: what exactly is the syntax when a group is included in an address-list? (See http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322#section-3.4). The question is, if another address follows the group, are they separated from each other by ';' or by ';,'? The ABNF seems to call for the latter, but I can't find any example showing it. I'm sure that I should accept both on input, but I'd like to generate the correct form. Does anyone have confirmation or contradiction for my interpretation?
The only instance of group syntax that I have ever seen used is when a message has all Bcc: recipients, and the email client wants to stick something into the To: line to be pretty. I turned that off in my Mozilla email clients after seeing it. And so in that usage, the group was never used with other recipients.
However, I totally agree that if it were, that the ABNF would call for both ; and , as the ; is part of the group syntax, and the , is the separator syntax.
Would look rather stupid, though. -- Glenn ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. -- Franklin Jones
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