Ask Bj�rn Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have code that checks for the <> envelope sender, and it works fine,
> > so I'm wondering who's misunderstanding what here.
>
> yeah, without testing then I'm slightly confused as well. I use
> qpsmtpd from CVS as of a month or two ago on my servers and I haven't
> had any problems (at least none that could be related to this).
I think the worry is that Mail::Address will be patched to
introduce quotes around phrases where the RFC requires them,
which would mean that the format would become '"<>"' rather
than '<>'. As I understand Brian, Debian already has a patch
that does that, though I don't understand why Debian is
patching a Perl module. It seems that the complainant should
have posted the bug to rt.cpan.org.
The current qpsmtpd code is creating an object with an
undefined address and a phrase of '<>', and phrases that
contain angle brackets (or other specials) need to be quoted,
according to RFC 822. So the fact that the format turns out as
'<>' appears to be a bug in Mail::Address.
Unfortunately, Mail::Address->new('', '')->format is just an
empty string rather than '<>'. But that makes sense, since no
other address gets angle brackets added when the phrase part is
empty. It looks like qpsmtpd should be using Mail::Address
->new('', '') to represent an empty address.
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Keith C. Ivey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Washington, DC
