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[Alberto dos Santos]

Hello,

I chose to follow this thread because it's exacly what I need.
I need a mailer class but I don't use PEAR, can anybody recommend an
easy and tested one (if there is such a thing)

Thank you.


On 24/10/05, W. @llen Shaw <ashaw at polymerdb.org> wrote:
> David Mintz wrote:
> > One thing I'm not clear on (said he, modulating into another topic) is
> > whether we are supposed to put double-quotes around "John Daly," to use
> > your example. It appears that we are.
>
> Right, me too, though it seems to me that rfc 2822
> (http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2822.txt) makes no mention of quoting
> the display-name.
>
> However, it is true that if your display-name has any special characters
> in it (this includes the "period" character ".", among other things) and
> you don't double-quote it, PEAR Mail is going to refuse to send it,
> saying "validation failed for W. Allen Shaw <ashaw at polymerdb.org>"
>
> Note this interesting snippet from RFC 2822:
> >    Note: The "period" (or "full stop") character (".") in obs-phrase is
> >    not a form that was allowed in earlier versions of this or any other
> >    standard.  Period (nor any other character from specials) was not
> >    allowed in phrase because it introduced a parsing difficulty
> >    distinguishing between phrases and portions of an addr-spec (see
> >    section 4.4).  It appears here because the period character is
> >    currently used in many messages in the display-name portion of
> >    addresses, especially for initials in names, and therefore must be
> >    interpreted properly.  In the future, period may appear in the
> >    regular syntax of phrase.
>
> Apparently current email implementations are handling special characters
> in display-name on their own terms; I would think it's wise to use
> double-quotes around the display-name unless you know for sure they
> won't use special characters.
>
> BTW, I'm glad you asked, as it gave me finally the extra curiosity to
> learn more.  Hopefully somebody will correct me if I'm wrong here.
>
> Take care,
> Allen
>
>
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> Allen Shaw
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