[5406] in Athena Bugs

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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roger A. Roach)
Tue Jul 3 15:28:00 1990

To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
From: Roger A. Roach <rar@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 90 15:28:14 EDT


Something adds a comma to the address when deailing with a long,
complex From: fields in constructing the To: address.

E.g.  I got the following mail:

Date: Tue, 3 Jul 90 15:07 EST
From: "D. Mark Sprague IS/OS W91-219B X4107" <MSPRAGUE%MITVBUD.BITNET@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re:  Report
To: rar@MIT.EDU

My reply looked like:

To: "D. Mark Sprague IS/OS W91-219B X4107"
    <MSPRAGUE%MITVBUD.BITNET@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>

It got bounced with the following (note the comma after the name field):

Date: Tue, 3 Jul 90 15:13:04 -0400
From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Subject: Returned mail: User unknown
Message-Id: <9007031913.AA01138@RAR.MIT.EDU>
To: rar@ATHENA.MIT.EDU

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>>> RCPT To:<d.mark sprague is/os w91-219b x4107>
<<< 550 <d.mark sprague is/os w91-219b x4107>... User unknown: No such file or directory
550 "d. mark sprague is/os w91-219b x4107"... User unknown

   ----- Unsent message follows -----
Received: by RAR.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA01136; Tue, 3 Jul 90 15:13:04 -0400
Message-Id: <9007031913.AA01136@RAR.MIT.EDU>
To: "d. mark sprague is/os w91-219b x4107",
        <MSPRAGUE%MITVBUD.BITNET@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re:  Report 
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 03 Jul 90 15:07:00 -0500.
             <6E015235C09F038237@mitvbud> 
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 90 15:13:01 EDT
From: Roger A. Roach <rar>

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