Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2001 19:55:01 -0700 From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> To: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: peter@wemm.org, ue@nathan.ruhr.de, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/send-pr send-pr.sh Message-ID: <20010604025501.2C4883E31@bazooka.unixfreak.org> In-Reply-To: <200106040222.f542MfP37672@aldan.algebra.com>; from mi@aldan.algebra.com on "Sun, 3 Jun 2001 22:22:40 -0400 (EDT)"
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Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com> writes: > 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? It only has to expand it to "mi@foo.org"; it's send-pr which puts your name there. Look at the diff. > > That said, it is not really that important, but this lasting > misunderstanding is amusing... > > -mi > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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