Re: [exim] Rewriting address phrases

On 17 Aug 2011, at 15:26, Ian Cameron wrote:

> Thanks for the responses so far. I have grouped similar responses together
> below with my answers.
>
> Richard Clayton said:
>> See #4.1 of RFC5322 (the discussion of obs-phrase)
>>
>> You should not be generating obs-phrases ... but the other end should be
>> accepting them ! You'll need to fix one end or the other.
>
> Ian Eiloart said:
>
>> AFAICS, obs-phrase wasn't offered as an option in rfc822, but it seems to me
>> that the dot has been legal in unquoted display names since 2001.
>
> OK then, that's fair enough. nmh is happy to accept them, but complains when
> replying instead of attempting to fix them or just ignoring them. Is the
> concensus that if I were to fix nmh, it should be quoting dotty phrases or
> just allow sending of unquoted dotty phrases? I'm thinking the former from
> what Richard has written above.

Yes, I think you probably should quote the dotty phrases. Or, rather, dotty obs-phrases!

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