Re[2]: [PHP-DEV] Bug #14329 Updated: Mail() does not work

Hi, >> This behaviour is quite weird, why should someome choose "," as a >> delimiter for users? > >writing a realname as "Lastname, Firstname" is rather common, >especially for sorting reasons that's why you're not following this rule, right :) just kidding. >> ok, ok it's mentioned in the manual, but why >> doesn't PHP just parse out all mail addresses? > >the unix implementation doesn't parse the parameters at all, >it just passes them transparently to the local MTA .. which makes the behaviour of mail() unpredictable. > even if "holzgraefe, hartmut <hartmut@six.de>" was accepted as > a single address by php mail(), it would still confuse MUAs, > especially when you try a "reply all" ... good argument. > the win32/SMTP implementation in its current doesnt pay much attention > to RFC821/822 conformance. period. anyway, the average PHP/win user will never find out about this problem :) Kind Regards, Daniel Lorch