Bug 71497 – Incorrect behavior with From field.

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Bug 71497 - Incorrect behavior with From field.

Summary:	Incorrect behavior with From field.

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	mailx (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.3
Hardware:	i686 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Jiri Ryska
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Reported:	2002-08-14 08:53 EDT by Leonid Mamtchenkov
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:45 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2004-11-02 03:18:56 EST
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Description Leonid Mamtchenkov 2002-08-14 08:53:49 EDT

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020408

Description of problem:
When sending mail with /bin/mail, it takes user's real name from /etc/passwd and
includes it in From field.  Parsing of the real name is broken, since real name
field in /etc/passwd can contain additional information, like office and office
phone (fill all fields using chfn).

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.chfn someuser
2.fill all fields
3.su - someuser
4.mail someotheruser
5.check email from someotheruser
	

Actual Results:  From field looks like this:
From: "John Doe,Redhat Inc.,+123 1 1234567,123 1 1234568" <john_doe@redhat.com>

Expected Results:  From: "John Doe" <john_doe@redhat.com>

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Comment 1 Ivana Varekova 2004-11-02 03:18:56 EST

Thank you for your notice.
This problem does not occure in version mailx-8.1.1-33.
IV

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