Subject: Why is my name in quotes?

From: [email-masked] (Peter H. Lemieux)
Date: 23 May 1995 02:21:48 GMT

Whenever I use Pine, my name appears in quotation marks as "Peter H. 
Lemieux."  I've tried setting the personal-name field and leaving it
blank and get the same result.  My entry in /etc/passwd doesn't have quotes 
either.  Other people in my firm don't get this.  Anybody know why?  

Thanks!
Peter

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 15:02:07 +0100 (BST)

Simple.  Only a certain selection of characters are allowed in names 
according to RFC 822.  Yours contains an "illegal" character (the full 
stop) and so must be enclosed in quotes to make it acceptable.

Change your personal name information to "Peter H Lemieux" and everything 
should be wonderful for you.

Mike Brudenell                                               <[email-masked]>
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From: Charlotte Mooers <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 10:16:37 -0400

You should get hold of the standard for the format of Internet messages,
rfc822. which is available from internic.ds.net, in the category RFC.

This standard specifies that the explanatory username, if it is in an
address field, must not contain a period, unless the whole explanatory
phrase is enclosed in parentheses.  The reason is that the period is
an important, meaningful symbol in the machine-readable address.

For example, the following To fields are okay:
 
To: [email-masked]
To: Robert Jones <[email-masked]>
To: R Jones <[email-masked]>

BUT the following To field is not okay:

To: R. Jones <[email-masked]>       WRONG!!!

RFC822 requires that the field be rewritten as:

To: "R. Jones" <[email-masked]>     OKAY!!!

This rule is designed to let the software parse the part of the
address field that is not enclosed in parentheses.

The rule didn't have to be this way, and it is not an intuitively
understandable or graceful design, but it IS a standard.  Be glad you
have an automatic mail agent that puts your address in the correct
form.

---Charlotte Mooers
   Postmaster, NEARNET

> Date:   23 May 1995 02:21:48 GMT
> From:   "Peter H. Lemieux" <[email-masked]>
> Subject:  Why is my name in quotes?

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From: Larry Brinton <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 00:08:52 -0400

Because you have a special character in your name... the period after the 
H. Remove the dot and the quotes go away.

...Larry

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From: [email-masked] (Pete Holsberg)
Date: Sat, 27 May 1995 20:44:36 GMT

Larry Brinton ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Because you have a special character in your name... the period after the 
: H. Remove the dot and the quotes go away.

What would happen if he had Peter H\. Lemieux???