06.03 What to do with "bad address 'xxx' - no at-sign after local-part".

Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00:00 -0800

  You may find that post returns the following message:

    post: bad address 'Mr. Foo Bar <fb@somewhere.edu>' - no at-sign
    after local-part (Bar), continuing...

  The unquoted dot causes "Mr. Foo" to be parsed as the local part of
  the address. Either remove the dot, or rewrite the address as
  follows:

    "Mr. Foo Bar" <fb@somewhere.edu>
    (Mr. Foo Bar) <fb@somewhere.edu>
    (Mr. Foo Bar) fb@somewhere.edu

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