Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!bbn.com!rsalz From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs Subject: Re: Mail User's Shell (MUSH) and/or SMAIL bug Message-ID: <266@fig.bbn.com> Date: 18 Dec 87 15:13:49 GMT Organization: BBN Laboratories, Cambridge MA Lines: 11 In comp.mail.misc (<6807@ncoast.UUCP>), allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) writes: >... RFC822 states that ',' is the separator between >addresses, spaces are basically ignored in RFC822 addresses... Huh? According to pages 10-12 of the RFC spaces separate tokens. If there is to be a space in an address, it must be in a quoted string. In particular, Full\ Name@Domain is not legal and must be specified as: "Full Name"@Domain -- For comp.sources.unix stuff, mail to sources@uunet.uu.net.