Author: Ross Boylan Date: To: exim-users CC: ross Boylan Subject: [Exim] [partial answer] Re: Using the textual part of email address
At 01:22 PM 8/14/02 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: >The RFC 822 mailbox specification permits an identifying phrase in
>addition to the "real" email address, for example
>Ross Boylan <xfq@???>
>has "Ross Boylan" (that's what I mean by the "textual part" in the
>subject; I know it's all text).
>
>I would like to use this in my exim filter. I know it's in the message
>headers, but does it ever appear anywhere else?
>
>For example, does the envelope information ever include this?
>Do exim's per address macros (e.g., $local_part) include this?
>
>My impression is that the answer to both questions is "No." P. 13 of the Exim book says that SMTP does not use the textual part, so
presumably the envelop information doesn't have it. And if exim is using
this info, it doesn't have it either.
