From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Make Message more RFC compliant
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 23:27:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87po32yeyy.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (raw)
There are recentish (I mean, only a few years old) RFCs that now specify
that From addresses on the form
From: larsi@gnus.org (Lars Ingebrigtsen)
SHOULD not be generated, because they create problems for some
recipients (*cough* Microsoft Mail *cough*):
Only this form is allowed now:
From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org> writes:
>> Note: Some legacy implementations used the simple form where the
>> addr-spec appears without the angle brackets, but included the name
>> of the recipient in parentheses as a comment following the addr-spec.
>> Since the meaning of the information in a comment is unspecified,
>> implementations SHOULD use the full name-addr form of the mailbox,
>> instead of the legacy form, to specify the display name associated
>> with a mailbox.
So:
The RFC says SHOULD, so Message shouldn't have an easy way to generate
From headers that deviate from the `angles' style.
So I propose to remove the code that reacts to `message-from-style'
(i.e., always generate `angles' From headers), and mark
`message-from-style' as obsolete and note in the doc string that it's no
longer used.
Any objections?
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
next reply other threads:[~2018-04-13 21:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-13 21:27 Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2018-04-14 6:36 ` Make Message more RFC compliant Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-14 13:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-14 13:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-14 13:52 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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