Re: [PATCH] Add a few tests for searching LWN emails.
Hi Carl and Thomas, On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 05:59:38 +1000 Carl Worth wrote: > Yes, I believe this is related to the dot in the name. From my > recollection a name with an address requires quoting. So the header > that is currently formatted as: > > From: LWN.net Weekly Notification > > should instead be: > > From: "LWN.net Weekly Notification" I am by no means an expert, but http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt would seem to indicate that names with a '.' in them don't need to be quoted as there are several lines in the Scenarios section that look like: C: From: John Q. Public unless the problem is XXX.yyy (i.e. no spaces on either side of the '.'), but that seems like a pretty arbitrary differentiator (i.e. 'Q. ' is fine, but 'LWN.net' isn't) aren't the '<' and '>' the real delimiters here? If we do need to fix something, though, we'd be more than happy to do so I suspect ... jake -- Jake Edge - LWN - j...@lwn.net - http://lwn.net ___ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org http://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch
[PATCH] Add a few tests for searching LWN emails.
Hi Carl and Thomas, On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 05:59:38 +1000 Carl Worth wrote: > Yes, I believe this is related to the dot in the name. From my > recollection a name with an address requires quoting. So the header > that is currently formatted as: > > From: LWN.net Weekly Notification > > should instead be: > > From: "LWN.net Weekly Notification" I am by no means an expert, but http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt would seem to indicate that names with a '.' in them don't need to be quoted as there are several lines in the Scenarios section that look like: C: From: John Q. Public unless the problem is XXX.yyy (i.e. no spaces on either side of the '.'), but that seems like a pretty arbitrary differentiator (i.e. 'Q. ' is fine, but 'LWN.net' isn't) aren't the '<' and '>' the real delimiters here? If we do need to fix something, though, we'd be more than happy to do so I suspect ... jake -- Jake Edge - LWN - jake at lwn.net - http://lwn.net