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Re: Question regarding the use of double quotes in an email header



> > 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.

You have to distinguish between quotes as part of the information
that is being transmitted, and quotes as part of the escaping
mechanism that RFC 2822 makes available.

The way things are written above, the quotes are really just part of
a quoting mechanism...

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Thomas Roessler   <roessler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>