Re: Commas and semicolons in the From field of messages.

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj stampede org>]

X-Mailing-List should not be treated as an addr-spec field. It can
contain anything so long as it describes the mailing list that it comes
from (there is no defined format).

Jeff

On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 23:53, Rikke D. Giles wrote:
> On 2002.04.01 20:41 Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> > On 2002.04.01 15:06 Karl Kopper wrote:
> >> 
> >> Balsa has problems when a "From" address looks like this:
> >> 
> >> John Smith, MD [jsmith@domain.com]
> >> 
> >> When you try to reply to this message Balsa seems to mistake the 
> >> comma
> >> for a separator character (same thing with semicolons).
> >> 
> >> Is there someting about my balsa setup that I can change to fix this?
> >> 
> >> --Karl
> > 
> > Can you post the exact header? Perhaps from Message -> View Source? 
> > Only a broken mailer could send a `From:' header like that!
> 
> This is interesting.  I've had problems similar to the above, but when 
> I looked at the source, as Peter suggested, I could see that it's the 
> mailer's fault, not balsa's.  The mailer is a MS product  with this 
> output in view source:
> 
> X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000
> Resent-Message-ID: <"VHosQ2.0.mF7.73Cdy"@kplug.org>
> Resent-From: user-list@kplug.org
> X-Mailing-List: <user-list@kplug.org> archive/latest/477
> X-Loop: user-list@kplug.org
> 
> When I hit reply to group, it sends to the X-Mailing-List, which means 
> I get an email bouncing from  'archive/latest/477'.  It's annoying to 
> have to check for this, but it's not balsa's fault I believe.  Irony 
> is, the mailing list is for a LUG :).
> 
> Rikke
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