[imp] Broken MS Outlook Headers

[Lars Hecking]

Evans, Tim writes:
> It would appear MS Outlook, or the local configuration of such here (over
> which I have no control) creates broken headers.
 
 Yeah, "MS Outlook" and "broken" are synonymous :)

 They just don't get the quoting right. Every time I receive mail from
 an outlook luser, the comment part of the To: address is embedded in
 single quotes, even though there are no characters that must be quoted.
 It's worse if the comment part consists of the email address itself, in
 this case the To: looks like

 To: "'a@a.a'" <a@a.a>

 Yes, RFC 822 parsers are a proverbial pain in the $part and difficult to
 get right, but it is beyond me how the multi-billon dollar "industry leader"
 who can supposedly afford the cream of programmers produces such crap.

> Users who reply from within IMP to my mail invariably get a bounce to the
> effect that "Evans, Tim" is an unknown address.  The reply is, in fact,
> properly delivered, though.  Thus, it would appear MS Outlook generates a
> header that seems to contain two separate addresses, "Evans, Tim" (with the
> literal quotes) and <Tim_Evans@troweprice.com>.

 It might be worth checking whether M$ has made a patch available for this ...