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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: posting to mailing list from Kmail difficult
From:       Michael =?iso-8859-1?q?H=E4ckel?= <Michael () Haeckel ! Net>
Date:       2001-04-09 15:51:13
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On Monday,  9. April 2001 15:49, Don Sanders wrote:
> Section 6 of RFC822 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc822.html) defines the
> syntax for valid email addresses. Appendix A.1.1 lists
>   Alfred Neuman <Neuman@BBN-TENEXA>
> as an example of a valid address*. Please note that this address has
> "missing" double quotes. I think at least in this case KMail is fully
> compliant with RFC822.

Right.

Double quotes are only required, if the name contains a comma as a different 
example in RFC822 illustrates:
"George, Ted" <Shared@Group.Arpanet>.
Or if you want to write "Neumann, Alfred" instead of "Alfred Neumann".

Otherwise they are simply useless.

Regards,
Michael Häckel
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