[4894] in Athena Bugs
MH-6.6 and RFC822
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Tue May 8 18:30:11 1990
Date: Tue, 8 May 90 18:29:45 EDT
From: Ken Raeburn <Raeburn@MIT.Edu>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Found this old message in my archives; it appears to still be
applicable. I have not yet tried it out.
To: Bug-MH@ICS.UCI.EDU
Subject: repl bad headers
Cc: MH-Workers@ICS.UCI.EDU
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 88 17:27:03 -0400
From: jb%cs.brown.edu@ICS.UCI.EDU
Repl generates headers which are in violation of RFC822. In particular,
the In-reply-to field has invalid characters in it. The easiest fix to
have replcomps quote the date. Attached are diffs from the copy of
replcomps distributed with MH-6.6.
Jim Bloom
*** ./support/general/replcomps.orig Thu Oct 29 18:01:33 1987
- --- ./support/general/replcomps Mon Jul 25 17:16:29 1988
***************
*** 4,10 ****
%<(nonnull)%(void(width))%(putaddr cc: )\n%>\
%<{fcc}Fcc: %{fcc}\n%>\
%<{subject}Subject: Re: %{subject}\n%>\
! %<{date}In-reply-to: Your message of \
! %<(nodate{date})%{date}%|%(tws{date})%>.%<{message-id}
%{message-id}%>\n%>\
--------
- --- 4,10 ----
%<(nonnull)%(void(width))%(putaddr cc: )\n%>\
%<{fcc}Fcc: %{fcc}\n%>\
%<{subject}Subject: Re: %{subject}\n%>\
! %<{date}In-reply-to: Your message of \"\
! %<(nodate{date})%{date}%|%(pretty{date})%>.\"%<{message-id}
%{message-id}%>\n%>\
--------