On 2008-05-15 at 01:39 -0700, Christian Gregoire wrote:
> When a message with a 'From:' header line contains a comma, like :
> From: my, test <my@???>
> Sendmail rewrites it, prepending @domain_ name before the comma :
> From: my@domain_ name, test <my@???>
I take it you mean "Exim", not "Sendmail"?
> If the line is encoded beforehand by the SMTP client (quoted-printable,
> base64, ...), this rule does not apply. I noticed the same behaviour with Sendmail.
>
> Is there an explanation to this, and a way to deactivate it ? It's not
> about the MAIL FROM command, but the From: field.
You can't deactivate it.
The From: header can contain multiple addresses, just like the To: or
Cc: headers. The addresses are separated with a comma. This would be
used, for instance, for emails representing the view of a group of
people, speaking together, with the Sender: header noting who actually
sent the email.
So you've supplied two email addresses; one is a full address with
display text, one is just a local-part, "my", which has to be qualified
with a domain before it's sent off the local system.
Leaving the line alone on your own system would just mean that the
receiving system changes it, assuming that it didn't reject it outright,
as for instance Exim would do if the sending host isn't in
sender_unqualified_hosts.
You'll need to work with the email standards, instead of against them,
unless you don't need to worry about ever sending email to anyone else's
systems. So, what are the options?
Each address can contain display information which can be encoded per
RFC2047; that encoded data can have whatever you want in it, including
commas. Any MIME-capable client will decode this and the results should
look the same; you've already noticed this and it apparently isn't
acceptable?
So, the other alternative is to use double-quotes around the display
name. That will add visible quoting, for many email clients, but will
avoid encoding in transit.
From: "my, test" <my@???>
-Phil
