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Vladimir Volovich <vvv@vsu.ru> writes:

> "KG" == Kai Großjohann writes:
>
>  >> It seems that (sc-mail-field "sc-attribution") and (sc-mail-field
>  >> "sc-author") do not work as expected for the From: syntax shown
>  >> above.
>
>  KG> Technically speaking the from header you're showing is
>  KG> syntactically incorrect, since the grammar requires a nonempty
>  KG> word before or after the <...> part (I forget whether it was
>  KG> before, or after, or either).  And comments are not considered
>  KG> nonempty words, IIUC.
>
> as far as i know, the latest RFCs allow such syntax. do you have some
> specific references on the invalidness of such header?

I read RFC 822 once and found it in the BNF.  But I confess that I
forgot that there is RFC 2822 these days and I have no idea what it
says.

Sorry.
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