Re: quoted names

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1 total messages Started by Mark Crispin Tue, 16 Oct 1984 11:22

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Author: Mark Crispin
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 1984 11:22

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Yes, the TOPS-20 SMTP sender/mailer (a.k.a. MMailr) will recognize that
an address has "special" characters and will quote the address if so.
It uses double-quote quoting when possible; if not, it uses backslash
quoting (for the really hairy cases).

What could have happened is that the process which queued the mail to
MMailr (which I bet wasn't MM) misunderstood the quote application rules
and applied SMTP quoting to the address in the envelope.  Since MMailr
performs this service, it was done twice.  Perhaps you'll be able to tell
from the message header what mail composition program wrote the message
and its maintainers can be notified.

On a related topic, it's been two years now and people are still using
" at " in addresses (ala RFC 733).  Noted culprits in the PDP-10 world
are DECmail/MS and old versions of Hermes and Babyl.  Something ought
to be done to stamp this old software out!
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