[Users] Stripping of quotes in email addresses in the address book

Paul claws at thewildbeast.co.uk
Fri Oct 11 09:43:51 CEST 2013


On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 16:39:34 -0600
Jonathan Corbet <corbet-claws at lwn.net> wrote: 

> Somehow the address book strips the quotes; the resulting address
> is not SMTP-correct and causes the mail to be bounced in places.

AFAIK, there's no RFC that says a name with a dot in it should be
quoted for the SMTP server, and certainly most SMTP servers don't
have a problem with that.

with regards

Paul


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