RE: history of using a comment for display-name?
"Larry Osterman" <larryo@Exchange.Microsoft.com> Tue, 13 March 2001 04:58 UTC
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And then there's my old friend (used by a popular client at one point) From: Foo@domain (Return Reciept Requested) And if anyone cares (and probably nobody does), this is why Microsoft Exchange explicitly ignores the "names in comments" convention - Before we shipped Exchange 4.0 we promoted the comment field to the "phrase" (if none was given) but one of our customers was using the "RRR-in-a-comment" client, so we pulled the functionality). -----Original Message----- From: Keith Moore [mailto:moore@cs.utk.edu] Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 8:39 AM To: Maynard Kang Cc: Keith Moore; drums@cs.utk.edu Subject: Re: history of using a comment for display-name? > I guess as a developer of e-mail software I find it mildly irritating that > I've always had to write code to support both the "phrase route-addr" and > "addr-spec (comments)" formats in e-mail headers. You can imagine the > problem getting worse when dealing with non-ASCII in headers.. I have had the same irritation for mail software that I write (even though it's not for public consumption, at least not yet) I try to find a name in either the phrase or a following comment, and naturally I decode encoded-words. I also try to deal with extra quotes, untagged 8-bit characters (guessing whether they're utf8, iso-2022-*, or something else), and phrases which are entirely redundant with the address. (so I translate each of the following: "foo" <foo@domain> "'foo'" <foo@domain> "foo@domain" <foo@domain> "'foo@domain'" <foo@domain> to simply <foo@domain> it's a major pain, but the resulting display is a lot easier to read) Most mail client these days seem to generate phrase rather than comment, but this doesn't help someone writing a new mail reader. Mail readers may have to deal with messages that are decades old, so they end up needing to understand old conventions long after they are no longer generated. Keith
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- Re: history of using a comment for display-name? Maynard Kang
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- Re: history of using a comment for display-name? Robert Elz
- Re: history of using a comment for display-name? Maynard Kang
- Re: history of using a comment for display-name? Keith Moore
- Re: history of using a comment for display-name? Maynard Kang
- RE: history of using a comment for display-name? Larry Osterman
- Re: history of using a comment for display-name? Sam Roberts
- Re: history of using a comment for display-name? Keith Moore
- Re: history of using a comment for display-name? Michael Richardson
- Re: history of using a comment for display-name? Larry Campbell
- Re: history of using a comment for display-name? Laurence Lundblade
- Re: history of using a comment for display-name? Kai Henningsen