Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:17:54 -0700
From: Jake Edge <jake@lwn.net>
To: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a few tests for searching LWN emails.
Message-ID: <20110128151754.57a98fa8@chukar>
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	Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name>
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Hi Carl and Thomas, 

On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 05:59:38 +1000 Carl Worth wrote:

> Yes, I believe this is related to the dot in the name. From my
> recollection a name with an address requires quoting. So the header
> that is currently formatted as:
> 
> 	From: LWN.net Weekly Notification <lwn@lwn.net>
> 
> should instead be:
> 
> 	From: "LWN.net Weekly Notification" <lwn@lwn.net>

I am by no means an expert, but http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt
would seem to indicate that names with a '.' in them don't need to be
quoted as there are several lines in the Scenarios section that look
like:

C: From: John Q. Public <JQP@bar.com>

unless the problem is XXX.yyy (i.e. no spaces on either side of the
'.'), but that seems like a pretty arbitrary differentiator (i.e. 'Q. '
is fine, but 'LWN.net' isn't)

aren't the '<' and '>' the real delimiters here?

If we do need to fix something, though, we'd be more than happy to do
so I suspect ...

jake

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