On 11:34 23 Jan 2002, Will Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Benjamin Smith wrote:
| > In the index this displays with the quotation marks included and this
| > looks kinda weird, I'm just wondering if this is correct behaviour,
| > and even if it is, what can be done about it.
|
| i'm pretty sure this usually depends on whether characters in the
| sender's name require quoting / escaping (ie characters that have
| special meanings to email headers), although some MUAs may quote by
| default.
Several popular ones quote by default. Almost all email I get from M$ users
has this gratuitous quoting.
| for instance, something like:
| "William B. Yardley" might need to be quoted, while "William Yardley"
| might not.
Neither needs quoting. RFC822 is deliberately very flexible (to the pain of MUA
authors)
because people have to type addresses. So you get:
"Cameron X. Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cameron X. Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron X. Simpson)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
or even
cs at zip.com.au
!!
All legal. There are characters you have to quote, but not the ones
common to Anglic names.
| i suppose you could strip this out somehow, but i don't really see the
| point personally.
Me either. If they emit ugly rubbish, let it get thrown back at them.
However if it bugs you, why not just use "%n <%a>" (in truth, I've not tested
if this strips the quotes).
--
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