On 10/9/2014 8:02 AM, David E. Ross wrote: > On 10/8/2014 11:15 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: >> A colleague wrote to me from the email >> Personal Name @ Gmail <[email protected]> >> which was misinterpreted by SeaMonkey as >> "\"Personal Name\"@Gmailpersonal.name"@gmail.com >> which Google read as >> <"Personal [email protected]"@gmail.com> >> and of course that bounced. >> >> Obviously, I've replaced her real name with "Personal Name" and >> "personal.name" where appropriate. >> >> I've already advised her to replace the first "@" sign with the word >> "at" to prevent this from happening with other correspondents, but I'm >> wondering if there's a problem with SeaMonkey's parser. >> >> What say you? >> > > RFC 5322 requires that your > Personal Name @ Gmail <[email protected]> > instead be > "Personal Name @ Gmail" <[email protected]>. > The quotes are required because the display name (Personal Name @ Gmail) > contains the restricted character @ ("special character" in the > terminology used in the RFC). > > While some E-mail clients might handle > Personal Name @ Gmail <[email protected]> > without quoting the display name, such applications are not required to > do so. >
I just ran a test in Thunderbird, which I believe uses the same MailNews Core component as does SeaMonkey. This test only applied to new message, not replies or forwards. If the display name is of the form "daughter @ home" with the quotes, the quotes are retained and not doubled. If the display name is that way but without the quotes, MailNews Core adds quotes to comply with RFC 5322. Not having received any E-mail messages with @ in the sender's display name, I would have to contrive such a message to test replies and forwards. I decline to do so. -- David E. Ross I am sticking with SeaMonkey 2.26.1 until saved passwords can be used when autocomplete=off. See <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1064639>. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
