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Re: mutt/2247: space in From_ line causes mail to never display



The following reply was made to PR mutt/2247; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Seth Arnold <seth.arnold@xxxxxxx>
To: bug-any@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: 
Subject: Re: mutt/2247: space in From_ line causes mail to never display
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 11:13:02 -0700

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 On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 05:08:42PM +0200, Alain Bench wrote:
 >     The email has to be valid. *foo bar@xxxxxxxxxx* is not,
 > while *"foo bar"@novell.com* is valid and works OK.
 
 Yah. Thankfully, the groupwise developers were very quick to repair this
 bug; I reported it here, as well, since I'm not sure that this specific
 beta version of groupwise is the only one to generate such broken email
 addresses.
 
 >     Mutt is too picky at parsing the From_ separator, and
 > does not react correctly when something is wrong. This has
 > been already discussed in bug/1200 "mbox From_ line format
 > over-strict expectations". I close this flea/2247 as
 > duplicate of /1200, and add you to the interested parties of
 > /1200.
 
 Thanks Alain.
 
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