Re: Balsa's In-Reply-To header non-compliant?

[Brian Stafford <brian stafford uklinux net>]

On 2003.09.23 03:43, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> Help me out here: RFC 2822 says that the In-Reply-To header is:
> 
> in-reply-to = "In-Reply-To:" 1*msg-id CRLF
> 
> where
> 
> msg-id = [CFWS] "<" id-left "@" id-right ">" [CFWS]
> 
> and CFWS is, of course, a _comment or _folding _white _space  
> (comments are parenthesized).
> 
> So how does Balsa's
> 
> In-Reply-To: <20030921022718.GA12801@Mercury.localdomain>; from  
> PeterBloomfield@bellsouth.net on Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 04:27:18 +0200
> 
> comply?  I don't see where "; lots of stuff" is [CFWS]!  What am I  
> missing?

Hi Peter,

I wondered if RFC 822 had more liberal syntax and indeed it does.   
Nevertheless, "; lots of stuff" doesn't even comply with RFC 822.   
Maybe its a case of following an example rather than the standard when  
coding.

Brian