Re: Unquoted "@" in From still in the wild?
Tony Finch <[email protected]>
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On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Mikel Lindsaar wrote: > > The reason they put this [bug] in is to handle a bug in Apple Mail.app > which was not quoting the From field correctly if it contained a @ > symbol. This has been fixed in subsequent revisions of Mail.app. Mail.app is catastrophically bad at letting a user's syntax errors leak through into 822 and 821 address fields. (It also retrys in the face of a permanent syntax error, without any time limit or frequency back-off.) Breaking your code to accommodate its lameness is foolish. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch <[email protected]> http://dotat.at/ FAEROES SOUTHEAST ICELAND: NORTHWESTERLY VEERING SOUTHEASTERLY 6 TO GALE 8, PERHAPS SEVERE GALE 9 LATER. ROUGH OR VERY ROUGH. WINTRY SHOWERS, THEN RAIN OR SLEET. MODERATE OR GOOD, OCCASIONALLY POOR LATER.