git-send-email: real name with period need to be dq-quoted on From: line

An author name like 'A. U. Thor <a.u.thor@example.com>" is not a
valid RFC 2822 address; when placing it on From: line, we would
need to quote it, like this:

Signed-off-by: "Junio C. Hamano" <junkio@cox.net>

diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
index 2fd5e87934edba0c17d657fe0878c8a380202328..21b3686b2c94740fac030624dc2eefeda82617da 100755 (executable)
--- a/git-send-email.perl
+++ b/git-send-email.perl
@@ -409,6 +409,11 @@ sub send_message
            $gitversion = Git::version();
        }
 
+       my ($author_name) = ($from =~ /^(.*?)\s+</);
+       if ($author_name =~ /\./ && $author_name !~ /^".*"$/) {
+               my ($name, $addr) = ($from =~ /^(.*?)(\s+<.*)/);
+               $from = "\"$name\"$addr";
+       }
        my $header = "From: $from
 To: $to
 Cc: $cc