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In article <1992Aug6.153531.30349@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
>In article <BsKE8J.2w2@breeze.rsre.mod.uk> heading@breeze.rsre.mod.uk (Anthony Heading) writes:
>>From Anthony <heading@hermes.mod.uk> Thu Aug  6 14:34:35 1992
>
>  Just a moment - this is just plain WRONG!
>

Well OK. I'm sorry if it offends any purist principles you might hold, but
  a) it's useful - the 'from' command prints recognisable names 
  b) it *nearly* worked

I guess what I'm interested in is a reason *why*
> ...the user name has no place in envelope addresses. ...

rfc822 states that angle brackets are generally used to e.g. delimit
mailboxes.  SMTP passes envelope address literally enclosed in angle
brackets.  Admittedly rfc821 forbids what I want to do, which is
have lines like:
  MAIL FROM: My name <user@host>
But it's unambiguous, easy to parse, the Ultrix standard sendmail seems
to cope with it, and I can't see anything wrong with it in principle.

I would like to have user names in envelope addresses, and hence in mailbox
files as well. While I accept that it is illegal, I don't know why.

> RMAIL is absolutely correct.
Where is the evidence? The original question remains unanswered.

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Anthony Heading  (heading@hermes.mod.uk)
DRA Malvern, UK
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