Re: [Evolution-hackers] Bug #50046.

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2 infradead org>]

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 09:08 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> I don't think it is even supported by rfc2822 anymore anyway, is it? I
> seem to recall seeing that it was a deprecated syntax.

�3.4 makes no mention of it being deprecated...

group           =       display-name ":" [mailbox-list / CFWS] ";"
                        [CFWS]

It goes on to explicitly describe the usage which I'm used to....

   When it is desirable to treat several mailboxes as a single unit
   (i.e., in a distribution list), the group construct can be used.  The
   group construct allows the sender to indicate a named group of
   recipients. This is done by giving a display name for the group,
   followed by a colon, followed by a comma separated list of any number
   of mailboxes (including zero and one), and ending with a semicolon.
   Because the list of mailboxes can be empty, using the group construct
   is also a simple way to communicate to recipients that the message
   was sent to one or more named sets of recipients, without actually
   providing the individual mailbox address for each of those
   recipients.


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