[imp] imp-3.2.2 messes up from addresses

Peter Solodov peter at alcor.concordia.ca
Wed Sep 17 07:00:13 PDT 2003


On 17 Sep 2003, Tim Winders wrote:
> Again, I am referring to the FROM: address, not the TO: address.

Yes, that's what I had too.

> The FROM address displays in IMP as:
>
> 	FROM: twinders at southplainscollege.edu (Default Identity)
>
> But, when the recipient gets the email, it is actually delivered as:
>
> 	FROM: "\"twinders"\"@southplainscollege.edu

Well, we had it slightly different.  If a user set his full name to
"User Name", surrounded by double quotes, his From address would
become "\\\"User Name\\\"".  The change I did solved that.  But it
seems there are other similar problems.  Off to dig the code...

        - Peter

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Peter Solodov                    | Concordia University 
http://alcor.concordia.ca/~peter | Montreal, QC, Canada


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