Lutz Jankowski writes:
When entering a recipients address that contains a space character, mutt just deletes it. The behaviour is the same whether you sent the email in a single command from the terminal or use mutt's interface.
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Is this a bug or a feature?
According to the formal syntax the backslash is required, and transforming "a\ b"@example.com to "a\b"@example.com is wrong. But I'm curious, what do you use that for? It sounds like a bug magnet of the worst kind.
quoted-string = [CFWS] DQUOTE *([FWS] qcontent) [FWS] DQUOTE [CFWS] qcontent = qtext / quoted-pair qtext = %d33 / ; Printable US-ASCII %d35-91 / ; characters not including %d93-126 / ; "\" or the quote character obs-qtext quoted-pair = ("\" (VCHAR / WSP)) / obs-qp (WSP is defined in the text as SP / TAB / HTAB.) Arnt