On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 06:35:03PM +0200, Bodo Moeller muttered:
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 06:25:58PM +0200, Steffan Hoeke wrote:
>
> > some of the adresses have the form
> > "My name" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > others, on the other hand have
> > my other name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > The strange thing is, in my mutt.alias the're all of the form
> > alias aliasname "my name" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > ^ ^ allways the quotes ...
>
> The quotes are necessary when the string contains special characters
> such as . or @. Usually the quotes can be omitted, and are.
Okay, this, i understand.
But the names that appear WITH the quotes are the ones with the special characters in
them.
Why doesn't mutt hide the " " ?
And another question..
is it possible to seperate the 'name' and 'address' so they're not seperated by just a
space?
Thnx,
Steffan
