Re: Question regarding the use of double quotes in an email header
On Saturday, 19 May 2007 at 02:11, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2007-05-18 14:41:19 -0700, Brendan Cully wrote:
> > On Friday, 18 May 2007 at 23:37, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> And even if they aren't necessary, one doesn't necessarily want to
> remove them. For instance:
>
> From: firstname "pseudo" surname <address@xxxxxxx>
>
> In short, if the sender has added unnecessary quotes, this may be for
> a good reason, and it may be better to keep them.
Personally, I get a lot more mail from
"Silly User" <silly@user>
than from
John "Superbad" Doe <john@doe>
so I prefer safe dequoting.