Re: history of using a comment for display-name?

"Maynard Kang" <maynard@pobox.org.sg> Mon, 12 March 2001 06:15 UTC

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Subject: Re: history of using a comment for display-name?
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>
> RFC822 did not adequately describe name <address> as the required form.
I
> believe that sendmail started the practise of doing address (name).
>

I think it did (section 6.1):
mailbox     =  addr-spec                    ; simple address
                 /  phrase route-addr            ; name & addr-spec
route-addr  =  "<" [route] addr-spec ">"

Additionally section 3.4.3 does state that comments must not be included
during protocol exchanges with mail servers.. and thus if I interpret it
correctly, sendmail is non-RFC822 compliant then.

maynard