Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 14:38:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com> To: ue@nathan.ruhr.de Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/send-pr send-pr.sh Message-ID: <200106031838.f53IcBP34831@aldan.algebra.com> In-Reply-To: <20010603185211.B92007@nathan.ruhr.de>
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On 3 Jun, Udo Erdelhoff wrote: > Hi, > On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 11:08:40AM -0400, Mikhail Teterin 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? -mi > IMHO, this change was long overdue. Check the history of PR docs/19604 > for an example of the problems this change avoids. > > /s/Udo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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