Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ateng!chip
From: chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Old style headers generated by Elm incompatible with Berkeley ?
Message-ID: <2521183C.8858@ateng.com>
Date: 27 Sep 89 18:58:02 GMT
References: <3800@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL
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According to lgl@blake.acs.washington.edu (Laurence G Lundblade):
>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. 

If Elm is generating RFC822-compliant addresses -- which it is -- then
there's nothing to fix.  Changing Elm won't solve your problem anyway:
Elm isn't the only mailer that generates addresses of the form
"login (Full Name)".

If your mailer is such a piece of garbage that it can't handle the most
common address format, you're the loser.  Fix your mailer or trash it.
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