Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!ukma!david From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack) Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs Subject: Re: Mail User's Shell (MUSH) and/or SMAIL bug Message-ID: <7897@e.ms.uky.edu> Date: 18 Dec 87 20:17:45 GMT References: <266@fig.bbn.com> Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack) Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 30 In article <266@fig.bbn.com> rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes: >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 You're both right ... Spaces need to be quoted since they seperate tokens. BUT, From:, Reply-To:, To: and so forth all take a "1#address" or "1#mailbox" ... "1#" is the way the authors chose to represent a list which has one or more elements and elements are seperated by comma's. It's unfortunate that the grammar specification in RFC-822 is so spread out, out of the ordinary, and thus hard to understand. Oh, take a look at p.18 and p.4 ... -- <---- David Herron -- The E-Mail guy <---- or: {rutgers,uunet,cbosgd}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <---- <---- Winter health warning: Remember, don't eat the yellow snow!