From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 266DF429E20 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:40:12 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[none] autolearn=disabled Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id sas5TE7cKCwy for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:40:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from vena.lwn.net (tex.lwn.net [70.33.254.29]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 59CD6431FB6 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:40:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from chukar (unknown [69.170.197.110]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by vena.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 514061540043; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:17:56 -0700 (MST) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:17:54 -0700 From: Jake Edge To: Carl Worth Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a few tests for searching LWN emails. Message-ID: <20110128151754.57a98fa8@chukar> In-Reply-To: <87vd18n6j9.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org> References: <1296124309-20072-1-git-send-email-thomas@schwinge.name> <87vd18n6j9.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8 (GTK+ 2.22.0; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 04:02:12 -0800 Cc: lwn@lwn.net, notmuch@notmuchmail.org, Thomas Schwinge X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 22:40:12 -0000 Hi Carl and Thomas, On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 05:59:38 +1000 Carl Worth wrote: > Yes, I believe this is related to the dot in the name. From my > recollection a name with an address requires quoting. So the header > that is currently formatted as: > > From: LWN.net Weekly Notification > > should instead be: > > From: "LWN.net Weekly Notification" I am by no means an expert, but http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt would seem to indicate that names with a '.' in them don't need to be quoted as there are several lines in the Scenarios section that look like: C: From: John Q. Public unless the problem is XXX.yyy (i.e. no spaces on either side of the '.'), but that seems like a pretty arbitrary differentiator (i.e. 'Q. ' is fine, but 'LWN.net' isn't) aren't the '<' and '>' the real delimiters here? If we do need to fix something, though, we'd be more than happy to do so I suspect ... jake -- Jake Edge - LWN - jake@lwn.net - http://lwn.net