Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!ncar!ames!pacbell!pbhyf!rob From: rob@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: Nested comments in a From line Message-ID: <4373@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> Date: 9 Dec 88 01:26:48 GMT References: <1535@unisoft.UUCP> Reply-To: rob@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo) Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA Lines: 20 In article <1535@unisoft.UUCP> cander@unisoft.UUCP (Charles Anderson) writes: +I'm running Elm 1.5b and received mail from someone whose from line was +something like: + From: elvis (Elvis (the king) Prestly) + +When I went to reply, I got the mail sent back to me with a bunch of +sendmail error messages concerning Prestly and unmatched ')'s. +Evidently, it send the message to "elvis Prestly)". According to +RFC822, "comments nest". If Elm 1.5b cannot deal with this, it's a bug +and not a feature. ... Is this fixed in 2.1? No. It hasn't even been fixed yet in the 2.2 version under development. Elm apparently doesn't check for open parenthesis in the "English" part of the "From:" (is there a technical name for this part?) and therefore doesn't realize there is nesting going on. -- Rob Bernardo, Pacific Bell UNIX/C Reusable Code Library Email: ...![backbone]!pacbell!pbhyf!rob OR rob@pbhyf.PacBell.COM Office: (415) 823-2417 Room 4E750A, San Ramon Valley Administrative Center Residence: (415) 827-4301 R Bar JB, Concord, California