On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Rasputin wrote:

> > > This 'trailing comma' pattern looks a bit rough in mails, etc.
> >
> > Strange. What applications? For example, pine doesn't include my ",,," in
> > my name (even though it is in gecos field.)
>
> I first noticed it in the root mails that cron generates, and another user
> on my box noticed mutt also them.

sendmail handles it fine -- see /usr/src/gnu/dist/sendmail/sendmail/util.c
to see how it handles it.

And mail(1) doesn't do anything with that -- it doesn't use the gecos.

So what is your "sendmail" (mailwrapper)?

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/