Thanks for your responses.

Ian Eiloart said:
>  And, which of the two quoting forms below is Exchange using?

Exchange is sending:

> > A.N.Other <[email protected]>

> Oh, but which of these forms is Exchange using? They're both valid, though =
> the quotes are redundant.

Well (and to answer Roger Burton West here too), I looked at RFC 2822 last 
week and have just checked again.  Unless I'm reading it incorrectly, phrases 
containing dots should be quoted.

I found this while searching for a solution to the quoting problem, which seems 
to agree with my understanding of RFC 2822:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/exim/users/1929?do=post_view_threaded

> So, which MUA are you using? And what is the complaint?

I'm using nmh with exmh (yeah, I know, but I've been using it for a long 
time!) and get:

repl: bad addresses:
        A.N.Other <[email protected]> -- no at-sign after local-part (<)

because it expects phrases containing dots to be quoted.

> Ah, OK, so you're thinking that the lack of quotes is causing the problem. =
> It shouldn't. Is there something else going on. Can you give a real example=
>  that exhibits the problem? I suspect that we're dealing with a specific ph=
> rase that requires quoting.

Yeah, it's definitely the lack of quotes around phrases containing dots.  If I 
quote them manually and then do a reply, it works fine.

As far as I can see, most MUAs are pretty lax about this, so it's become 
acceptable.  I'm not bothered about it, but unfortunately, my MUA is!

Thanks.

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