Hi,

>> This behaviour is quite weird, why should someome choose "," as a
>> delimiter for users?
>
>writing a realname as "Lastname, Firstname" is rather common,
>especially for sorting reasons

that's why you're not following this rule, right :)

just kidding.

>> ok, ok it's mentioned in the manual, but why
>> doesn't PHP just parse out all mail addresses?
>
>the unix implementation doesn't parse the parameters at all,
>it just passes them transparently to the local MTA

.. which makes the behaviour of mail() unpredictable.

> even if "holzgraefe, hartmut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" was accepted as
> a single address by php mail(), it would still confuse MUAs,
> especially when you try a "reply all" ...

good argument.

> the win32/SMTP implementation in its current doesnt pay much attention
> to RFC821/822 conformance. period.

anyway, the average PHP/win user will never find out about this
problem :)

Kind Regards,
  Daniel Lorch



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