Re: [Exim] Exim SMTP RCPT format

On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Phil Pennock wrote:

> On 2001-06-08 at 01:58 +0200, Tamas TEVESZ gifted us with:

[..]

> > > purpose of addressing an email to an individual with their title (ie, 'IT
> > > Mgr', 'Boss Man', 'Work Partner', whatever). I know this sounds like a
> > > vehicle for SPAM, but it's not. We have used it successfully to address an
> > > individual by the title that we know them by. So anyway, that is why I'd
> > > still like to be able to do this...
>
> This is an issue for your Mail User Agent, not for the MTA. If there
> are two people named "John Smith" then the MUA is in a position to say
> "hold on, which of these do you mean?" whilst setting the MTA to do this
> sooner or later _WILL_ create problems.


I don't think they meant they wanted to use the titles/full names as
email addresses, I think they just wanted to include them (on the To:
header, but they confused it with the envelope recipient) in addition to
the email address.