Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site hou3c.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!MRC@SU-SCORE.ARPA From: MRC@SU-SCORE.ARPA (Mark Crispin) Newsgroups: net.mail.msggroup Subject: Re: quoted names Message-ID: <874@hou3c.UUCP> Date: Tue, 16-Oct-84 07:22:36 EDT Article-I.D.: hou3c.874 Posted: Tue Oct 16 07:22:36 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 21-Oct-84 05:58:15 EDT Sender: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist) Lines: 17 To: don.provan@CMU-CS-A.ARPA Cc: msggroup@BRL.ARPA In-Reply-To: Message from "don.provan@CMU-CS-A.ARPA" of Mon 15 Oct 84 12:47:00-PDT Postal-Address: 725 Mariposa Ave. #103; Mountain View, CA 94041 Phone: (415) 497-1407 (Stanford); (415) 968-1052 (residence) Yes, the TOPS-20 SMTP sender/mailer (a.k.a. MMailr) will recognize that an address has "special" characters and will quote the address if so. It uses double-quote quoting when possible; if not, it uses backslash quoting (for the really hairy cases). What could have happened is that the process which queued the mail to MMailr (which I bet wasn't MM) misunderstood the quote application rules and applied SMTP quoting to the address in the envelope. Since MMailr performs this service, it was done twice. Perhaps you'll be able to tell from the message header what mail composition program wrote the message and its maintainers can be notified. On a related topic, it's been two years now and people are still using " at " in addresses (ala RFC 733). Noted culprits in the PDP-10 world are DECmail/MS and old versions of Hermes and Babyl. Something ought to be done to stamp this old software out! -------