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From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/send-pr send-pr.sh 
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On  3 Jun, Peter Wemm wrote:
>> >> On  2 Jun, Dima Dorfman wrote:
>> > [...]
>> >> >   Put  the  originator's full  name  in  the From  and  Reply-to
>> >> >   fields,  and stick  their username  (which sendmail  will make
>> >> >   into an e-mail address) inside  '<>'. Sendmail will still DTRT
>> >> >   with this, and  it conveniently puts the  submitter's name and
>> >> >   e-mail  address on  one line,  just  like it  should be  after
>> >> >   "Submitted by" in a commit message.
>> >>
>> >> But will all mailwrap-able MTAs DTRT?
>> >
>> > They better DTRT or they don't  belong on the Internet in the first
>> > place. If  you read the  various standard documents,  starting with
>> > RFC 821/822, you  will find that <> are defined  as delimiters of a
>> > machine-parseable  address and  that  the mailer  is  to use  their
>> > content; ignoring all other parts of the line in question.
>> 
>> Well, I was referring to  the "conveniently puts the submitter's name
>> and e-mail address on one line" part. Will other MTAs do that?
>
> They must in order  to be RFC compliant. If somebody  feeds it a local
> address "From:  John Smith  <jsmith>" or  "From: jsmith  (John Smith)"
> then  the MTA  *MUST* qualify  it with  a fully-qualified  domain name
> before it leaves  the local machine/domain. ie: it MUST  convert it to
> either "From:  John Smith  <jsmith@foo.org>" or  "From: jsmith@foo.org
> (John Smith)".

No way, my English can not be THAT bad. Let me rephrase it, will another
MTA _conveniently put the submitter's name_ there? If I put 
	From: <mi>
*MUST* an MTA expand it into
	From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@foo.org>
or can it just do
	From: <mi@foo.org>
to remain compliant?

That  said,  it   is  not  really  that  important,   but  this  lasting
misunderstanding is amusing...

	-mi



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