On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 09:42:17AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: | I've been trying to write a mailfilter rule, nothing worked. Finally I | noticed that while mutt displays the From header as | | AmikaGuardian Server <abuse@speakeasy.net> | | This showed the same whether with the full headers toggled on or off. | Just a minute ago, when I just catted a sample msg file in the shell it | showed as | | AmikaGuardian (TM) Server <abuse@speakeasy.net> | | So now I understand why my filter wasn't working. Can someone explain to | me why mutt's display omitted the parenthesized bit? It's supposed to. RFCs 822 and 2822. The parenthesis (unless properly quoted) indicate a comment, which renderers and the like will ignore just like a compiler or interpreter ignores comments in source code. If you want to see the raw encoding in mutt, press 'e' to edit the raw message in $EDITOR. -D -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/
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