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emailnaming-conventions
Kit Sunde
Kit Sunde

Reputation: 37095

What's the name of the "Kit <[email protected]>" form of writing an email address?

The RFC for email addresses defines both that you can use [email protected] as well as Kit <[email protected]> but it doesn't appear to be calling them by any special name and so I simply went with "named". Is there a proper name for them?

class Email():
    name = "Kit"
    email = "[email protected]"
    named = "Kit <[email protected]>"

Upvotes: 1

Views: 89

Answers (1)

phwd
phwd

Reputation: 19995

It seems RFC just calls it mailbox.

Normally, a mailbox is comprised of two parts: (1) an optional display name that indicates the name of the recipient (which could be a person or a system) that could be displayed to the user of a mail application, and (2) an addr-spec address enclosed in angle brackets ("<" and ">").

Upvotes: 3

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