[Evolution] Re: More bugs to report

[Alan Shutko <ats acm org>]

Sejal Patel <sejal iname com> writes:

> Most major universities use the naming convension of last, first for the
> default email addresses they assign the students.  I was simply repling
> to a message sent to me by a friend who sent it to me that way and that
> is when I kept getting messages saying that it was undeliverable because
> such as such was not a valid email address. 

Well, there's a bug somewhere.  I haven't tried it, but here's some
background.

According to the RFCs, if you have punctuation in the comment of an
address (ie, the name of the person), it needs to be in quotes.  So

Alan Shutko <ats acm org> 
"Shutko, Alan" <ats acm org>

are ok, but 

Shutko, Alan <ats acm org> 

is not.

Now, if the message came into your system with the From: without
quotes, it's broken.  If Evolution dropped the quotes in the reply,
Evolution is broken.

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