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[mail smtp] Including a full name in header fields

 [1/8] from: gregg:pointillistic at: 12-Dec-2008 12:26


Has anyone modified SEND and the SMTP scheme to support the inclusion of a name, along with the email address, in the mail header? -- Gregg

 [2/8] from: compkarori:g:mail at: 12-Dec-2008 21:19


Gregg What do you mean? On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 8:26 AM, Gregg Irwin <gregg-pointillistic.com> wrote:
> Has anyone modified SEND and the SMTP scheme to support the inclusion > of a name, along with the email address, in the mail header? > > -- Gregg > > -- > To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to > lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject. >
-- Graham Chiu http://www.synapsedirect.com Synapse - the use from anywhere EMR.

 [3/8] from: gregg:pointillistic at: 12-Dec-2008 13:17


Hi Graham,
>> Has anyone modified SEND and the SMTP scheme to support the inclusion >> of a name, along with the email address, in the mail header?
GC> What do you mean? I want the TO line to say: Graham Chiu <compkarori-gmail.com> not just compkarori-gmail.com I thought using send/header would work, but it looks like non-email elements are removed intentionally. -- Gregg

 [4/8] from: compkarori::gmail::com at: 12-Dec-2008 21:20


Gregg In prot-esmtp.r, you have this foreach addr data/2 [ confirm-command port ["RCPT TO: <" addr ">"] ] so there is no way you can send the persons name without modifying this first. On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Gregg Irwin <gregg-pointillistic.com> wrote:
> Hi Graham, >>> Has anyone modified SEND and the SMTP scheme to support the inclusion
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> To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to > lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.
-- Graham Chiu http://www.synapsedirect.com Synapse - the use from anywhere EMR.

 [5/8] from: gregg:pointillistic at: 12-Dec-2008 14:29


Hi Graham, GC> In prot-esmtp.r, you have this GC> foreach addr data/2 [ GC> confirm-command port ["RCPT TO: <" addr ">"] GC> ] GC> so there is no way you can send the persons name without modifying this first. I saw that too. I was wondering if someone else had already addressed all the issues in both SEND and the scheme. -- Gregg

 [6/8] from: dechert::gmail::com at: 12-Dec-2008 12:07


I think I know what Gregg meant. I asked this question some years ago. Most email clients will put the recipient's name in the header... From: "My Name" <my.name-mydomain.com.org> To: "Her Name" <her.name-herdomain.com> Using send, you just have the email addresses, not the name. Alan Dechert

 [7/8] from: santilli::gabriele::gmail::com at: 13-Dec-2008 10:10


On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 9:47 PM, Graham Chiu <compkarori-gmail.com> wrote:
> In prot-esmtp.r, you have this > > foreach addr data/2 [ > confirm-command port ["RCPT TO: <" addr ">"] > ]
Wait, that has nothing to do with the email header. You CANNOT put a name there, the SMPT protocol does not allow that.
> so there is no way you can send the persons name without modifying this first.
The problem here is that SEND is not too smart about the handling of /ONLY. SEND/ONLY/HEADER will work. send/only/header someaddress-host "message" make system/standard/email [ To: "Anything you want" ] Note that SEND is still expecting From: in the header to be an email!, which may not be what you want. I'd rather use esmtp:// directly in cases like this. Regards, Gabriele.

 [8/8] from: gregg::pointillistic::com at: 13-Dec-2008 11:06


Thanks Gabriele! I noticed that /only didn't mod things, but hadn't gotten to reading any specs. -- Gregg

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