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
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Assignee: Jiri Ryska
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Reported: 2002-08-14 12:53 UTC by Leonid Mamtchenkov
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:45 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-11-02 08:18:56 UTC
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Description Leonid Mamtchenkov 2002-08-14 12:53:49 UTC 
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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>

Additional info:
Comment 1 Ivana Varekova 2004-11-02 08:18:56 UTC 
Thank you for your notice.
This problem does not occure in version mailx-8.1.1-33.
IV
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