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

["Karl Kopper" <karl_kopper hotmail com>]

I guess this thread is going in a different direction than my problem. My
problem doesn't have anything to do with lists (at least at the moment).
Sorry for the delay sending it, here is a header showing the problem.

Note that the return path is correct!

(I've changed the names to protect the innocent).

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From: "John Smith, MD" <johnsmith@domain.com>
To: <michelle@domain.com>
Subject: FW: Vacation
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 15:45:16 -0800
Message-ID: <NGBBJIGLIKFPELODJFDDMEHNCDAA.johnsmith@domain.com>
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Bloomfield" <PeterBloomfield@MindSpring.com>
To: <balsa-list@gnome.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 2:28 AM
Subject: Re: Commas and semicolons in the From field of messages.


> On 2002.04.02 01:06 Rikke D. Giles wrote:
> > On 2002.04.01 21:45 Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> >> 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
> >
> >
> > Woo, my bad then.  Maybe this is a balsa problem?
> >
> > Rikke
>
> Maybe...Balsa looks first for the List-post header defined by RFC 2369,
> and, only if there is none, falls back to X-beenthere or
> X-mailing-list. I've never used it in a case where the fallback was
> used--evidently it's not without its problems. The Balsa code could be
> simplified a little by omitting it--see set_list_post_address in
> src/sendmsg-window.c. Any other opinions?
>
> Peter
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