bug#29309: 25.2; Gnus: please make message-from-style 'angles the only option

[Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org>]

On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 8:03 PM, Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> wrote:
> Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org> writes:
>
>> Package: emacs,gnus
>>
>> Currently, the custom option message-from-style can be one of:
>>
>> 'parens, resulting in e.g. “stapelberg@debian.org (Michael Stapelberg)”
>>
>> 'angles, resulting in e.g. “Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org>”
>>
>> However, https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822#section-3.4 (from 2001)
>> states:
>>
>>>    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.  Also, because some legacy implementations interpret
>>>    the comment, comments generally SHOULD NOT be used in address fields
>>>    to avoid confusing such implementations.
>>
>> Let us please make Gnus a better citizen by following the RFC’s
>> recommendation and removing the legacy form.
>
> I see no reason to remove the legacy form, unless you want to go to
> the trouble of writing code to nag people to change their setup. You
> might have an argument for changing the default to be 'angles though.

I don’t follow. Why would people need to change their setup? We could
just discard the option altogether and always use 'angles, couldn’t
we?


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Best regards,
Michael