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From: lgl@blake.acs.washington.edu (Laurence G Lundblade)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Old style headers generated by Elm incompatible with Berkeley ?
Message-ID: <3800@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 26 Sep 89 21:37:42 GMT
Organization: Univ of Washington, Seattle
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(2nd attempt to post this in case you already got one)
I'm pretty sure the Elm always generates Cc: fields that look like
"fred (Fred Flintstone)". Our local expert informs us that this is the
older RFC733 style header, though it's still RFC822 compliant. The new
style is "Fred Flintstone ". The parenthesis are a comment field
and not really part of anything. It seems Elm should generate the
new style, or at least have a compile time option. 

The problem with earlier versions of Berkeley mail, or /usr/ucb/Mail,
is that it can't handle the RFC733 style addresses in Cc: field
(though it can in the To: field). It just goes into an infinite loop!
From the source we have they almost fixed this, and it is fixed in
4.3. Also it doesn't do real well with the 822 style headers either.
It does like the plain "fred" though. This is Ultrix 3.1 we have the
Berkeley mail source for.

Anyone else experienced this? Reasons for generating addresses as they
are currently?


Laurence Lundblade                       206-543-5617
  lgl@cac.washington.edu
     Networks and Distributed Computing, U of Washington, Seattle