[TYPO3-core] RFC: #8522 Problems with PHP mail function on Windows

[Dmitry Dulepov [typo3]]

Hi!

Andreas Otto wrote:
> Problem:
> The implementation of the mail function in PHP differs on Windows [1].
> 
> Emails containing to and from email adresses formatted like:
> 
> John Doe <john at example.com>
> 
> will result in the email not being sent on Windows.

I think I know why... It is not Windows-specific but will also happen if regular *nix sendmail is replaced with programs line mini_sendmail who emulate sendmail to connect to smtp server. They all (including PHP's mail() on Windows) do the same mistake: they take whatever is in "to" and use it in smtp RCPT TO command, which is wrong syntax. They should extract e-mail address and use that.

I think bug should be failed for PHP as well.

May be, in addition to this patch, we should have a list of sendmail-like programs that work in a wrong way and make workaround for them too.

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