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Re: vm-resend-message

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From: kyle
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1992 21:10
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 >     > Though the doc says it prompts for a "comma seperated list", which
 >     > implies to me, "just like the To: line",
 > 
 >    Actually that wasn't what I had in mind.  vm-resend-message was a
 >    simple answer to Elm's "bounce" command.
 > 
 > I'm confused; what does Elm's bounce command have to do with not handling
 > comma separated lists????

No special effort was made to parse all the permutations of RFC
822 brackets, comments, quotes, etc.  Elm doens't do any of the
fancy parsing, either.

 >     > [...] this isn't really true, because I typed in "Some Dude
 >     > <his-address>, Someone Else <another-address>", and got
 >     > bounced messages for Some, Dude, Someone, and Else.  The To:
 >     > line had been mangled to have commas between the phrase-words
 >     > somewhere along the line.
 > 
 >    Yah, I decided that someone someday is going to enter a space
 >    separated list, so I just turned white space into commas.
 >    Probably a bad decision.
 > 
 > Agreed.  Could you please fix this?

Actually I'm not sure why I didn't put all the 822 goop into
vm-resend-message in the first place.  I think VM already has all
the necessary code.
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