IPhone Mail bug: Account Name with a comma

I seem to have found a bug in the SMTP implementation on the iPhone's Mail.app. When the iPhone sends an email the recipient will actually see two distinct senders, one sender is "Appleseed" and the other is "John" <[email protected]>. Both sending addresses will be wrong and un-reply-able. Somehow, during the SMTP conversation, the iPhone is mishandling the from address if the display name contains a comma.
Here at the university we have a naming convention for email addresses as:
"Last, First" <[email protected]>
For example, assume your email account is set up like this:
Name: Appleseed, John
Address: [email protected]
When the iPhone sends email the recipient will actually see two distinct senders, one sender is "Appleseed" and the other is "John" <[email protected]>
The sender should of course be: "Appleseed, John" <[email protected]>
I've tested this out sending email from the iPhone through various email servers and I'm fairly certain the bug is on the iPhone, as it happens no matter which SMTP server I use. If the email account has a comma in the display name the message will have a corrupt "From:" address, and the recipient will be unable to reply (since the address gets munged in transport).
I've also tested this out with other email clients, and they all properly send email from accounts with "Appleseed, John" as the display name.

If you NOTICED the iPhone email setup only allows you to input characters that are allowed in any given field. For example it removes from your keyboard non-standard characters when inputing an email address.
Though a comma in the display name of either a "from" or "to" address is fine in the format of
"Appleseed, John" <[email protected]>
If a comma in the display name causes Mail.app problems then that too should be fixed.
The display name field of an email address is allowed by RFC to have (if I remember correctly) quite a few of the non-alpha numeric ascii character.
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