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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    Bug#19187: kmail comments in address (RFC822) handling
From:       Michael =?iso-8859-1?q?H=E4ckel?= <Michael () Haeckel ! Net>
Date:       2001-01-27 8:52:20
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On Saturday, 27. January 2001 03:51, cwhii@mail.com wrote:
>
> RFC822 section  A.1.4.  Wilt . (the  Stilt) Chamberlain@NBA.US
>
>              The "(the  Stilt)" is a comment, which is NOT included in
>         the  destination  mailbox  address  handed  to the originating
>         system's mailer.  The local-part of the address is the  string
>         "Wilt.Chamberlain", with NO space between the first and second
>         words.
>
> There are cases were it is very useful to be able to include a comment
> within an address which will not go out in the message. The feature
> appeared not to work in:
>
>   KMail [version 1.1.99]
>
> Here is an extract from the message:
>
> Return-Path: <cwhii@mail.com>
> Received: (qmail 22164 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2001 02:41:20 -0000
> Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.localdomain) (64.24.196.92)
>   by mail.ixpres.com with SMTP; 27 Jan 2001 02:41:20 -0000
> From: C.W.Holeman II <cwhii@mail.com>
> Reply-To: cwhii@mail.com
> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 18:37:58 -0800
> X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99]
> Content-Type: text/plain;
>   charset="iso-8859-1"
> To: cwhii{test}@iname.com
> Subject: Comment in address test
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Message-Id: <01012618375801.01701@localhost.localdomain>
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>
> cwhii{test}@iname.com -> cwhii@iname.com ?

I currently can't find this feature in RFC822. Nevertheless, we pass the 
e-mail address to the server as it is written and I think it is the job of 
the server to handle the brackets.
If we would allow non-standard e-mail addresses people who reply to the mails 
only run into trouble.

Regards,
Michael Häckel

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