Daniel Lorch wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>><?
>>mail("holzgraefe, hartmut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>","test","test");
>>?>
>>holzgraefe... User unknown
>>/home/hartmut/dead.letter... Saved message in /home/hartmut/dead.letter
>>
>
> Actually I didn't pay enough attention to your error message (and you
> neither as it seems :)).
be asured, i have ;)
> holzgraefe is resolved to a local user which
> apparently isn't able to receive mails.
true
> This behaviour is quite weird, why should someome choose "," as a
> delimiter for users?
writing a realname as "Lastname, Firstname" is rather common,
especially for sorting reasons
> ok, ok it's mentioned in the manual, but why
> doesn't PHP just parse out all mail addresses?
the unix implementation doesn't parse the parameters at all,
it just passes them transparently to the local MTA
> Everything containing a
> @ where the boundaries are either whitespace or obvious characters
> such as "<" and ">" ?
even if "holzgraefe, hartmut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" was accepted as
a single address by php mail(), it would still confuse MUAs,
especially when you try a "reply all" ...
> Ah, and did I mention that PHP on Windows behave quite oddly? Probably
> because it connects directly to the SMTP server rather than piping to
> sendmail/qmail.
the win32/SMTP implementation in its current doesnt pay much attention
to RFC821/822 conformance. period.
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