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- Subject: Re: Fullname in Keywords:
- Message-ID: <BxzB1F.JA8@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
- From: Andy.Linton@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Andy Linton)
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 19:48:50 GMT
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- References: <1992Nov18.164841.9044@progress.com>
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- In article <1992Nov18.164841.9044@progress.com>, header writes:
- |> Hi all,
- |>
- |> I've noticed two ways by which mail readers see a "Full name" of a sender
- |> from mail received:
- |>
- |> From: tucker@bedford.progress.com (Kyle Tucker)
- |> &
- |> From: "Kyle Tucker" <tucker@bedford.progress.com>
- |>
- |> Is there a name for this Fullname field and is it documented in an RFC? I
- |> looked in 822 and found the references to it kinda vague. Anyway, my goal
- |> here is to find out if I have a legitimate gripe againts two companies
- |> that send mail out without these fields as many users are complaining
- |> that they can't easily figure out who sent the mail because of the horrible
- |> userids allowed by some System Administrators.
-
- In RFC 1123 the following change to RFC 822 is made:
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- 5.2.15 RFC-822 Syntax Change: RFC-822 Section 6.1
-
- The syntactic definition of "mailbox" in RFC-822 is hereby
- changed to:
-
- mailbox = addr-spec ; simple address
- / [phrase] route-addr ; name & addr-spec
-
- That is, the phrase preceding a route address is now OPTIONAL.
- This change makes the following header field legal, for
- example:
-
- From: <craig@nnsc.nsf.net>
-
- This means that these are all legal addresses:
-
- From: tucker@bedford.progress.com (Kyle Tucker)
- From: "Kyle Tucker" <tucker@bedford.progress.com>
- From: <tucker@bedford.progress.com>
-
- I'd agree that adding the full name in some form is a good idea but I'm afraid
- you can't use the standards as a stick.
-