Bug#881903: Please use angles in From: addr-spec
Package: debbugs
Severity: normal
Currently, debbugs sends messages with From: headers in the format
“stapelberg@debian.org (Michael Stapelberg)”.
However, https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822#section-3.4 (from 2001)
states:
> Note: Some legacy implementations used the simple form where the
> addr-spec appears without the angle brackets, but included the name
> of the recipient in parentheses as a comment following the addr-spec.
> Since the meaning of the information in a comment is unspecified,
> implementations SHOULD use the full name-addr form of the mailbox,
> instead of the legacy form, to specify the display name associated
> with a mailbox. Also, because some legacy implementations interpret
> the comment, comments generally SHOULD NOT be used in address fields
> to avoid confusing such implementations.
Let us please make debbugs a better citizen by following the RFC’s
recommendation and switching from the legacy form to the recommended form,
i.e. “Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org>”.
Thanks,
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, armel, mipsel, arm64
Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages debbugs depends on:
ii ed 1.10-2.1
ii libio-stringy-perl 2.111-2
ii libmailtools-perl 2.18-1
pn libmime-perl <none>
ii perl 5.26.1-2
ii ssmtp [mail-transport-agent] 2.64-8+b2
Versions of packages debbugs recommends:
ii apache2 [httpd] 2.4.29-1
ii lynx 2.8.9dev16-1
ii nginx-extras [httpd] 1.13.6-2
debbugs suggests no packages.
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