Re: Question regarding the use of double quotes in an email header

2007-05-19 Thread Thomas Roessler
> > And even if they aren't necessary, one doesn't necessarily want to > > remove them. For instance: > > From: firstname "pseudo" surname <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > In short, if the sender has added unnecessary quotes, this may be for > > a good reason, and it may be better to keep them. You have

Re: Question regarding the use of double quotes in an email header

2007-05-18 Thread Brendan Cully
On Saturday, 19 May 2007 at 02:11, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2007-05-18 14:41:19 -0700, Brendan Cully wrote: > > On Friday, 18 May 2007 at 23:37, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > I disagree. Removing quotes can also confuse the user, just like this > > > can confuse a mail software. For instance, con

Re: Question regarding the use of double quotes in an email header

2007-05-18 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-05-18 14:41:19 -0700, Brendan Cully wrote: > On Friday, 18 May 2007 at 23:37, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > I disagree. Removing quotes can also confuse the user, just like this > > can confuse a mail software. For instance, consider the following > > "From:" header: > > > > From: "<[EMAIL PR

Re: Question regarding the use of double quotes in an email header

2007-05-18 Thread Brendan Cully
On Friday, 18 May 2007 at 23:37, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2007-05-18 08:33:36 -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > > The idea is that the quotes are essentially an artifact of the internal > > formatting of RFC 822-style email (aka: ALL email), and shouldn't be > > displayed in their literal form any

Re: Question regarding the use of double quotes in an email header

2007-05-18 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-05-18 08:33:36 -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > The idea is that the quotes are essentially an artifact of the internal > formatting of RFC 822-style email (aka: ALL email), and shouldn't be > displayed in their literal form any more than any of the other encoding > details should be. I dis

Re: Question regarding the use of double quotes in an email header

2007-05-18 Thread Kyle Wheeler
On Friday, May 18 at 08:56 AM, quoth Mun Johl: For some reason, when I receive email from a colleague, the From: line looks like this (of course, without the indentation): From: email_address // format 1 rather than this: From: First Last// format 2 Huh. That is strange. Check out

Re: Question regarding the use of double quotes in an email header

2007-05-18 Thread Lars Hecking
> I'm trying to figure out where in the email transmission/reception > process the names are being stripped for me, and why. But after looking > at my raw mbox, this is not a mutt issue. I think the problem is that Outlook doesn't quote properly, and never has. It purely quotes the hell out o

Re: Question regarding the use of double quotes in an email header

2007-05-18 Thread Mun Johl
Hi Kyle, et al., First, my apologies for double posting my original email. Please see my comments below. On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 07:33 AM PDT, Kyle Wheeler wrote: ... Text Deleted ... KW> The idea is that the quotes are essentially an artifact of the internal KW> formatting of RFC 822-style

Re: Question regarding the use of double quotes in an email header

2007-05-18 Thread Kyle Wheeler
On Thursday, May 17 at 05:06 PM, quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The company I work for as defined everyone's email addresses as: "First Last" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ...okay... Mutt seems pretty smart and automatically adds/removes the double quotes on the outgoing email based on one's name (e.g., if

Question regarding the use of double quotes in an email header

2007-05-18 Thread mun_johl
Hi, The company I work for as defined everyone's email addresses as: "First Last" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mutt seems pretty smart and automatically adds/removes the double quotes on the outgoing email based on one's name (e.g., if a period is used). But my company uses the double quotes on all add