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From: pat@orac.pgh.pa.us (Pat Barron)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: Re: Quotes in addresses
Message-ID: <304@orac.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 22 Feb 91 05:10:22 GMT
References: <8391@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: pat@orac.UUCP (Pat Barron)
Organization: Pat's Sun-2/120
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In article <8391@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> jss@greeble.Eng.Sun.COM (Josh Sirota) writes:
>According to RFC822 (at least as I interpret it), comments are delimited
>by *parentheses*, not by double quotes, yet the mush man page (and the
>code, in get_name_n_addr()) imply that double quotes are treated just like
>parentheses.

If mush does this, it's RFC822 parser is broken.  Double-quotes do *not*
delimit comments.  Parentheses, in general, do delimit comments, but not
always (for instance, when they appear inside double-quotes....).

RFC822 (as amended by the Host Requirements RFC) gives a grammar for addresses.
Any address parser should interpret addresses with respect to the grammar,
rather than making blanket (wrong) assumptions like "double-quotes always
delimit comments".

--Pat.