On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 12:13:08PM -0400, Terri Oda wrote:
I've been getting these periodically from one of my list members' servers and I'm curious... is To: user@domain.com <user@domain.com> really an invalid address? MailMAX is the only server I've ever seen thrown an error on this.
I keep meaning to email them and ask what's up, since it seems like a bug to me, but before I do, does anyone know if this is actually an invalid address and other servers just deal with it?
According to my reading of RFC 2822 3.4, no, it's fine: if a mailbox can be a name-addr, and a name-addr is a display-name followed by an angle-addr, then the display-name should be treated as a comment by any mailre, provided that the angle-addr is syntactically correctly constructed.
But this is more properly a topic for comp.mail.headers. (Does that NG still exist? ;-)
Cheers, -- jra
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