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 Lines: 20 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. -- You may redistribute this article only to those who may freely do likewise. Chip Salzenberg at A T Engineering; or "If you push something hard enough, it will fall over." -- Fudd's First Law of Opposition