On 2017-12-19 13:44:09 +0100, Lutz Jankowski wrote:
> 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.
> 
> "jankowski+spa ce"@pre-sense.de
> is changed to
> jankowski+sp...@pre-sense.de
> Trying to escape the space with a backslash, just leaves the backslash
> there.
> 
> Is this a bug or a feature?
> 
> We are currently using Mutt 1.5.24.

This also occurs with Mutt/1.9.2+41. I would say that's a bug.
I don't know whether in the latest RFC's, space characters are
accepted or not in e-mail addresses, but in any case, either the
e-mail address should be accepted as is, or there should be an
error message.

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