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|    mark lewis to Ross Cassell    |
|    A T-bird issue?    |
|    25 Apr 16 22:42:58    |
      25 Apr 16 19:11, you wrote to David Drummond:               DD>> Works exactly as documented.               RC> That I was using the latest Tbird build... But I also tried POSTBOX        RC> which is Tbird code and got mangled names in the from field in the        RC> message list.               RC> So the next question is this, is anyone running their server under        RC> 32bit Ubuntu 16.04?              it isn't an OS problem... it is a conformity enforcement problem... apparently       changing the code to not put in the ">" works... looks to me like some regex       is getting confused and not looking for a leading "<" first... in other words,       not really a JAMNNTPD problem... the same might likely happen is someone put a       ">" in their name field... the detection and subsequent processing may be a       method to thwart spammers putting other email addresses within the "<>"       characters and causing the real/other ones to not be shown...              )\/(ark              Always Mount a Scratch Monkey              ... Don't judge the parade by a few clowns.       ---        * Origin: (1:3634/12.73)    |
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