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[ Added comp.mail.headers as receiver ]

robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson) writes:
[ Long description deleted, but
  Original To: was in elm and emacs's buffer:
  To: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk(Robert Nicholson)
]
�Can anybody explain the following...

�Where did the ',' come from in

�To: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk(Robert, Nicholson)

�in both the elm and the emacs message.

�and why did the emacs message fail when the exact equivalent message
�from elm was successfully delivered?

�NOTE: I had a user to the same thing in Emacs but using sendmail and
�they didn't have any problems. So currently I cannot put my finger on
�exactly what the cause of the problem is.

�My first thought is that Emacs is failing to quote something but I
�figure it's not my responsibility to do the quoting whilst in the
�Emacs MUA. However the sendmail example counters that theory.

I guessing that your MTA (smail ?) is broken. Definetely space in
headers isn't address separation character. Seems also that your MTA
don't handle comments in address correctly.

I quessing that elm don't fail, because it passes envelope senders
to MTA. Emacs ask to MTA parse envelope senders from To: -line.
So even when MTA misparses TO: -line in elm's case that don't propagate
to envelope senders. In Emacs' case in propagates.
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