Re: quick & dirty alternate addresses

On 12/2/03 at 1:28 AM +0000, Adam M. Costello wrote:

>One of the selling points of the display-name approach was that it 
>would work in existing MUAs.  But that was assuming that they 
>wouldn't choke on long display-names, which unfortunately seems not 
>to be the case.

Actually, that's not my problem (and I suspect it's not the other's 
problems either). You mentioned it above:

>It can just use the real angle-addr (as it always has), and treat 
>the display-name as an opaque string to display to the user (as it 
>always has).

Nope, my MUA has never treated the display-name as an opaque string. 
It decodes it and, upon reply, copies the whole address (display name 
and angle-addr) directly into the "To:" field where it expects to be 
able to be able to re-encode it for sending. But when the MUA tries 
to re-encode the address, it finds these angle-bracketed things that 
it thinks are illegal addresses and chokes.

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