Some clients are sending from addresses like <someone at somewhere.org>
i.e. without a "friendly" name. It seems to me from RFC2822 that you
should either have "Display Name <someone at somewhere.org>" or just
"someone at somewhere.org" (both without the quotes).
Dovecot, not unreasonably, treats "<someone at somewhere.org>" as having an
empty Display Name, but this seems to confuse at least one client - our
webmail ;) - which then displays "?" for the "from" address.
The patch below tries to make dovecot treat empty display name as
non-existent display name (so that the IMAP "ENVELOPE" command responds
with "NIL" instead of "" in the relevant places).
Best Wishes,
Chris
--- dovecot-1.0-stable/src/lib-mail/message-address.c.orig Fri Apr
8 12:30:34 2005
+++ dovecot-1.0-stable/src/lib-mail/message-address.c Mon Jun 20
10:42:23 2005
@@ -140,6 +140,10 @@
return -1;
ctx->addr.name = p_strdup(ctx->pool, str_c(ctx->str));
+ if (*ctx->addr.name == '\0') {
+ /* Cope with "<address>" without display name */
+ ctx->addr.name = NULL;
+ }
if (parse_angle_addr(ctx) < 0) {
/* broken */
ctx->addr.domain = p_strdup(ctx->pool, "SYNTAX_ERROR");
--
--+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+-
Christopher Wakelin, c.d.wakelin at reading.ac.uk
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