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2 total messages Started by header Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:48

#3212

Author: header
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:48

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Hi all,

I've noticed two ways by which mail readers see a "Full name" of a sender
from mail received:

From: tucker@bedford.progress.com (Kyle Tucker)
&
From: "Kyle Tucker" <tucker@bedford.progress.com>

Is there a name for this Fullname field and is it documented in an RFC? I
looked in 822 and found the references to it kinda vague. Anyway, my goal
here is to find out if I have a legitimate gripe againts two companies
that send mail out without these fields as many users are complaining
that they can't easily figure out who sent the mail because of the horrible
userids allowed by some System Administrators.

Thanks again for great support! 
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Kyle Tucker - Email Administrator  | 		Progress Software Corporation
tucker@bedford.progress.com 	   |		14 Oak Park
(617)280-4565			   |		Bedford, Mass. 01730
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Re: Fullname in Keywords:

#3219

Author: Andy Linton
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 19:48

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In article <1992Nov18.164841.9044@progress.com>, header writes:
|> Hi all,
|> 
|> I've noticed two ways by which mail readers see a "Full name" of a sender
|> from mail received:
|> 
|> From: tucker@bedford.progress.com (Kyle Tucker)
|> &
|> From: "Kyle Tucker" <tucker@bedford.progress.com>
|> 
|> Is there a name for this Fullname field and is it documented in an RFC? I
|> looked in 822 and found the references to it kinda vague. Anyway, my goal
|> here is to find out if I have a legitimate gripe againts two companies
|> that send mail out without these fields as many users are complaining
|> that they can't easily figure out who sent the mail because of the horrible
|> userids allowed by some System Administrators.
    
In RFC 1123 the following change to RFC 822 is made:

	5.2.15  RFC-822 Syntax Change: RFC-822 Section 6.1

         The syntactic definition of "mailbox" in RFC-822 is hereby
         changed to:

            mailbox =  addr-spec            ; simple address
                    / [phrase] route-addr   ; name & addr-spec

         That is, the phrase preceding a route address is now OPTIONAL.
         This change makes the following header field legal, for
         example:

             From: <craig@nnsc.nsf.net>

This means that these are all legal addresses:

From: tucker@bedford.progress.com (Kyle Tucker)
From: "Kyle Tucker" <tucker@bedford.progress.com>
From: <tucker@bedford.progress.com>

I'd agree that adding the full name in some form is a good idea but I'm afraid
you can't use the standards as a stick.

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