On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 11:00:00 -0500, Subba Rao wrote:
> On 0, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > You mean like with:
> > >
> > > mutt -s "Subject here" 'A. Recipient <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' < msg_file
> >
> > If you try this, I think you'll find the To field gets rewritten as:
> >
> > To: "A . Recipient" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The above recipient specification violates RFC 822. The real name
part needs to be quoted when it contains special characters such
as a dot. And Mutt doesn't like wrong specifications too much.
Try instead:
mutt -s "Subject here" '"A. Recipient" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' < msg_file
> When I attempted to send with the following syntax,
>
> mutt -s "Subject here" 'A. Recipient <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' < msg_file
>
> it was substituted as follows,
>
> 'A. Recipient <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, '@attglobal.net
Hmm. Did you configure Mutt with --enable-exact-address?
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Byrial
