[6852] in SIPB bug reports
pmail header problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Salvatore Valente)
Thu Jun 11 10:59:19 1998
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 10:59:12 -0400
To: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
From: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
(Memo to myself)
When mail is sent with a From: line that contains a name, a username,
and a parenthetical comment, such as:
From: Salvatore Valente <svalente@mit.edu> (Really)
It generates a "From " line using the first name instead of the username,
such as:
From Salvatore date
This is not a problem, unless the name is quoted, such as:
From: "Salvatore Valente" <svalente@mit.edu> (Really)
In this case, it will generate an illegal "From " line, such as:
From "Salvatore date
An illegal "From " line will cause the message to get appended to the
previous message. If you don't know what any of this means, don't
worry, I'll fix it eventually.
Have a nice day,
Sal.
P.S. I'm aware of the much more serious problem that pmail crashes on
very large messages. I'll fix that eventually too.
