Re: IMAP error not handled

[Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se>]

Kai Großjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> writes:

> If I use
> 
>     From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE
> 
> people (only those in German newsgroups, it seems) complain that the
> real name part (there is none) of the From header doesn't contain a
> space.

Add '<' and '>' around the address and you should be fine. Point them
to RFC1123 §5.2.15 if they complain about the lacking real name part,
it's not required since 1989...

> And the following line seems to lead to problems due to the eight bit
> character (even though it is of course properly encoded with quoted
> unreadable stuff by Gnus):
> 
>     From: Kai Großjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE>
> 
> Ick.  What should I do?  Is there no way for me to get my _real_ real
> name into the From header without somebody complaining?

Use this one and tell people to fix their programs if they can't
handle it. (That includes nnimap I guess :-))