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From: wunder@hp-ses.SDE.HP.COM (Walter Underwood)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers
Subject: Re: RFC-822 'phrase' question
Message-ID: <1760002@hp-ses.SDE.HP.COM>
Date: 21 Jun 89 20:33:09 GMT
References: <43c2245d.129dc@blue.engin.umich.edu>
Organization: HP SW Engineering Systems - Palo Alto, CA
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> I have noticed that a number of mailers will generate From: lines like:
>   From: John Q. Public <JQP@MIT-AI.ARPA>

A safe version of this is:

   From: (John Q. Public) JQP@MIT-AI.ARPA

In strict 822-land, the angle brackets are only allowed if there is a
route address, but the draft host requirements RFC amends the BNF to
allow that.  The above example could have angle brackets, but they
are not necessary.

wunder