eichelbe@nadc.arpa (12/04/85)
I am running into a problem with my mail system under 4.1 BSD UNIX. Many sites send us mail with lines like: Reply-To: "Bozo" <bozo@clown> When we try to reply to such a message our mail system tries to do something with "Bozo" rather than just ignoring it. Now I have copies of RFC733 (21-Nov-1977) and RFC822 (13-Aug-1985), which supercedes RFC733, and both RFC's seem to support the "Bozo" <bozo@clown> format. Am I correct that both RFC's support this format, and on the Reply-To: line to boot? Is it a bug that 4.1 BSD UNIX does not support this format, or is really just that someone has put a new feature into the mail headers that was not supported way back when we got 4.1 BSD, and so I'm just really behind the times? (The effect is the same.) I have source for 4.1 BSD UNIX, and I think I could change the routine "skin" in the file /usr/src/cmd/ucbmail/aux.c to handle (ignore) the "Bozo" type of stuff. But don't I have to watch out for things like Reply-To: "Big Gut"@tumtum where the quoted stuff is important? Thanks. Jon Eichelberger eichelbe@NADC.ARPA