"Brown, Len" <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I don't know if the fix should be in the git-am script > which set the From: field, or in the git-format-patch > script which takes that field and makes it into > an e-mail message. The fix should be in send-email script, as COMMITTER_NAME and AUTHOR_NAME are just simple strings without RFC2822 limitation (such as necessity of quoting a "."). As a matter of fact, recent enough send-email is supposed to have a fix for this exact problem. If your copy of send-email does not have sub sanitize_address_rfc822 { you might want to upgrade. Both 1.5.2-rc1 and 1.5.1.3 have this. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html