On Jan 7, 2006, at 6:36 AM, Nigel Garvey wrote:

> Just to confirm: whereas the 'sender' is a property of a message,
> containing the 'address' and 'display name', a 'recipient' is an  
> element.
> Each recipient has an 'address' property containing the 'address' and
> 'display name'.

Interesting, and something I had forgotten.  It's "interesting"  
because it precludes handling the valid (but never seen) multiple  
addresses in the From: header case.  Multiple addresses in the From:  
header was built into SMTP to allow for things like secretary Nancy  
sending mail "from" boss Fred:

    From: "Fred the Boss" <[log in to unmask]>,Nancy<[log in to unmask]>

This was little used 20 years ago, and I've never seen an instance  
outside of an instructional situation or the email RFCs.  It's likely  
that most modern GUI mail clients (defining "modern" as, say, no more  
than 10 years old) cannot even produce such a From: header.  But it  
remains interesting that the Emailer folks elected to preclude  
dealing with it in the scripting model (at the cost of sender and  
recipient being different creatures (property vs element).

   --John (fondly remembering the day in early 2000 when he noticed  
that the script he used to dump Emailer messages into a FileMaker  
database had produced a batch of mail dated in January 1900.   
Fortunately it was easy to separate my actual January 1900 email from  
the messages which should have been January 2000, and run a FileMaker  
command to fix the latter.  It was then I gave in and set the 7300 to  
use four-character dates rather than 2, solving the problem for  
future runs of the script.)