On Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 02:56:19PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > Syntactically they are rfc822 comments, and send-email _should_ be able > > to handle them (and does in recent versions). > > I'm not certain that comments are allowed _after_ a tld in an > email address. In any case, I guess it's a good thing I used > parentheses for the get_maintainer rolestats block. Oh, it's much more horrible than that. RFC822 contains this example: Muhammed.(I am the greatest) Ali @(the)Vegas.WBA which parses to: Muhammed.Ali@xxxxxxxxx Perl's Mail::Address does decipher that correctly. > > > linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (open list) > > > > In this one, I think that the comment will be used as the name field, > > since there isn't one. > > I think that slightly unexpected as the name field is not required. TBH, so do I. That's all done by Mail::Address's format() method. We could probably convince it to be less magical, but perhaps it's best to just leave it alone. Presumably that logic has some historical basis, and as you note, it's a mistake to be passing these fields into send-email in the first place. -Peff
