John Baxter wrote on Sat, 7 Jan 2006 08:55:01 -0800:

>...  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).

That's an interesting tidbit. The situation's similar in PowerMail and
Mail, and presumably in other clients. In PowerMail (at least) its
possible to fake the visual effect by including the name and address of
the first sender in the displayed name of the second:

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

It looks good in the "From:" display, but a glance at the long headers
when the message arrives shows it up for the fake it is -- as does
replying to it.

>   --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, ...

;-)

A friend of a friend of mine apparently received a card recently from an
elderly relative, wishing her all the best for 1906.

NG