kevin@harvard.ARPA (Kevin Crowston) (07/11/85)
I have almost finished working on my SMTP server.
One problem that I'm worried about is blanks in
user names. Here almost all of our users have
blanks in their user names, although many of them
have aliases without blanks. This means that outgoing
mail will have user names with blanks in the from
field, but incoming mail doesn't need to have them.
First of all, what do I do with names with blanks?
I've been enclosing the entire name in ""'s--will
most mailers take this? (E.g. "Kevin Crowston"@Sloan.MIT.EDU).
Will any of them generate responses correctly?
Second, will many mailers take this as a return address?
Can I send to "kevin crowston"@sloan.mit.edu and
expect it to work on many machines?
I believe this is according to the standard, but I
still don't feel totally comfortable with it. Any
suggestions?
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Kevin Crowston UUCP: {seismo,ut-sally}!harvard!kevin
MIT Sloan School of Management ARPA: kevin@harvard.ARPA