Re: Question regarding the use of double quotes in an email header
On Friday, 18 May 2007 at 23:37, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> 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>
Mutt shouldn't dequote unless the quotes aren't necessary. So in this
case, mutt shouldn't dequote.