R. David Murray writes: > 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,
Why? I mean, YAGNI. > but I'd like to generate the correct form. Does anyone have confirmation > or contradiction for my interpretation? >From RFC 822. The Cc field contains two groups, separated by ",", with each group terminated by ";". A.3.3. About as complex as you're going to get Date : 27 Aug 76 0932 PDT From : Ken Davis <kda...@this-host.this-net> Subject : Re: The Syntax in the RFC Sender : KSecy@Other-Host Reply-To : Sam.Irving@Reg.Organization To : George Jones <gr...@some-reg.an-Org>, Al.Neuman@MAD.Publisher cc : Important folk: Tom Softwood <ba...@tree.root>, "Sam Irving"@Other-Host;, Standard Distribution: /main/davis/people/standard@Other-Host, "<Jones>standard.dist.3"@Tops-20-Host>; Comment : Sam is away on business. He asked me to handle his mail for him. He'll be able to provide a more accurate explanation when he returns next week. In-Reply-To: <some.string@DBM.Group>, George's message X-Special-action: This is a sample of user-defined field- names. There could also be a field-name "Special-action", but its name might later be preempted Message-ID: <4231.629.XYzi-What@Other-Host> _______________________________________________ Email-SIG mailing list Email-SIG@python.org Your options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/email-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com