Eric Thomas <ERIC@FRECP11>
Tue, 7 Apr 1987 19:06 SET
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Jim: it's PUT not *PUT. The leading '*' would indicate a comment line which
is ignored.
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I had to resend the mail because of problems caused with the new RFC822
support I implemented in my LISTSERV. I think I should completely drop this
full RFC822 support project as it creates problems with the Crosswell MAILER
that does not support it. My new routines created a real-valid-superb RFC822
name field instead of removing "troublesome" characters as was done before,
and lo and behold, MAILER bounced the thing back to me. Did I misunderstand
something in RFC822? I thought that the following name field was valid:
"\"James R. Gerland\""
The field is enclosed in double quotes, which is valid, and the backslash
character is used to quote double-quotes inside the field, which is I think
the way it should be done. Anyway this causes a syntax error in the From:
field. I don't know what to do about this. It is not possible to create a
network of mailing systems, each of which supporting about 75% of RFC822 (not
always the same 75% besides), without a great deal of luck.
Eric
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