>I was wondering about asking someone to make a Mailman handler that >would re-write the From: address after munging to: > >From: Jane Doe (j...@example.com) via listname <l...@example.net> > >My question now is, is there any reason why re-writing it this way would >be a bad idea?
Well, of course, it's a bad idea for all the reasons we know that address munging in general is a bad idea. By my reading of RFC 5322, this is syntactically valid, but it's fairly unsusual to put a parenthesized comment into the display name preceding the angle-addr. Also, if Jane's name happens to have a dot or other punctuation in it, that's not valid, e.g. this is wrong: From: Jane Q. Doe (j...@example.com) via listname <l...@example.net> You can quote the whole thing to make it OK: From: "Jane Q. Doe j...@example.com via listname" <l...@example.net> R's, John ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
