[H-GEN] Interpretation of RFC822

[Greg Black]

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"Everist, Geoff" wrote:

| OK...by way of "starting a useful discussion" instead of just sending test 
| messages to the list, I pose this little conundrum (it may not be useful 
| to others, but the answers will certainly be useful to me):
| 
| According to RFC822, is this a legal "mailbox" entry for a from header?

First point: 822 has been superseded by 2822, so you should look
there for the rules.

|  "Bloggs, Fred"<fbloggs at common.com>
| 
| Or is a space REQUIRED between the "phrase" (i.e. "Bloggs, Fred") and the 
| "route-addr" (<common.com>)?. If a space is required (which is what most 
| MUA's seem to do), then which part of the standard mandates this?

I hate interpreting those grammars, but I can tell you that at
least one MTA will insert the space between the two parts, and
it will also remove extra spaces if you have more than one space
there.  Whether this is "correct" or not, I don't know.

Greg

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