Florian Weimer wrote:
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>* Stephen R. van den Berg:
>> I noticed that the From: field generated by git-format-patch does not
>> conform to RFC822 format when the realname contains a dot (like mine).

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>This was fixed in RFC 2822, and the fix has already been deployed widely
>(even before the advent of RFC 2822).  I don't think there's any need to
>change GIT.

True indeed.  Ironically, the vger.kernel.org mailserver adheres to
RFC822 and ignores RFC2822 at the moment, which means that generating patches
from git, for the git mailinglist doesn't work without intervention.
I already contacted the vger-mailserver admin about this.
-- 
Sincerely,                                                          srb@cuci.nl
           Stephen R. van den Berg.
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