On Dec 18, 2010, at 06:31 PM, R. David Murray wrote:

>Barry, I've added you as nosy in case you disagree with this fix.  The
>essential point is that before, parseaddr would turn 'merwok wok@example.com'
>into 'merwokwok@example.com', and now it preserves the whitespace.  My theory
>is that this loses data, that the obsolete syntax allows it, and that
>dropping the whitespace denies the application program the chance to apply
>its own heuristics.  However applications might currently be depending on the
>parsed local part being a single token, so I don't plan to backport this.

Thanks.  I agree with the fix, and not back porting it.