Re: Question regarding the use of double quotes in an email header
On 2007-05-18 08:33:36 -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> The idea is that the quotes are essentially an artifact of the internal
> formatting of RFC 822-style email (aka: ALL email), and shouldn't be
> displayed in their literal form any more than any of the other encoding
> details should be.
I disagree. Removing quotes can also confuse the user, just like this
can confuse a mail software. For instance, consider the following
"From:" header:
From: "<address1@xxxxxxx>" <address2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
See also <http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/2014>.
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