[Nms-cgi-devel] Re: [Nms-cgi-support] FormMail.pl - email header From line is malformed

[Jonathan S. <jn...@ge...>]

On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 13:17, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
> I've copied this to the developers list in case anyone has the time to
> make the change, document it and then do a release.
> 
> On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 20:17, Brett Johnson wrote:
> > I guess you're right about the formatting, so this will take a slight turn here.
> > 
> > Just because you CAN doesn't mean you SHOULD.
> > 
> 
> Oh, I'm with you there - on further inspection it appears that we
> inherited the format of the e-mail address from the MSA FormMail that
> ours is intended to replace.  I would have suggested that you look at
> the NMS TFmail which is really where the focus of our development is
> going as far as Form to Email programs - but I see that this has the
> same formatting as well.  I think what we would like to do would be to
> make the formatting optional, so that we could have by default the
> current style and by altering the configuration the more conventional
> "Display Name <address>" format (the option being disabled when
> $emulate_matts_code is set to true).  Of course somebody may have a
> better idea.
> 

I have just uploaded a new version of FormMail that includes the ability
to choose which style of address you want to use.  It is all fully
documented in the README.

/J\