On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 09:58:26AM +0530, Binand Raj S. wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 12:57:30PM +0530, USM Bish wrote:
> > Shyam,
> >
> > Please avoid the "@" sign within your name string ....
> > and that too with spaces around them:
> >
> > "shyamk @ eth . net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > The "@" in mails is a reserved character in the address
> > line, and should not be used injudiciously. Most scripts are
> > dependent upon this character to extract the address-id.
>
> Have been having RFCs for breakfast. ;-)
>
> This address is perfectly valid under RFC 2822. Any program that breaks
> when this address is input should be considered non-compliant.
>
> Specifically, 2822 puts the '@' character in the specials group,
> defines an atom as 'Any character except controls, SP and specials',
> and says, later:
>
> <quote src=rfc2822>
> Strings of characters that include characters other than those allowed in
> atoms may be represented in a quoted string format, where the characters
> are surrounded by quote (DQUOTE, ASCII value 34) characters.
> </quote>
>
> The above address is in the right quoted string format.
>
> For scripts that depend upon '@' to extract mail ids, I suggest the
> regex in the following command:
>
> grep <.*@[^>]*> /var/spool/mail/binand
>
> Seems to work for me. YMMV.
>
> Binand
>
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Thanks for the technical info Binand. It was a kind of edu-
cation for me ...
Unfortunately, it makes very little sense having your full
mail id repeated in the "Name" section ( with spaces between
the words for a different look).It carries no extra informa-
tion ... technicalities aside, it looks SILLY ! AFAIK, This
aspect is not covered in any RFC :-)
Bish
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