RE: [misterhouse-users] List header garbage

[Eric V. <er...@pe...>]

Because of the SMTP RFC, any mail program that is displaying the headers in
the mail message itself is not complying with the RFC.  The basic layout of
an email is:

To: address
From: address
Subject: address
header: data
header: data
<blank line>
Message body


thus, anything coming before the first blank line, is supposed to be
considered header information.  Depending on your mail program, you may or
may not see this information outright...  however some mail agents display
any header information that is not "standard" in the body of the message,
which is incorrect.

In summmary - complain to Eudora, or switch mail clients =)  The listserv is
working correctly.

--Eric



> -----Original Message-----
> From: mis...@li...
> [mailto:mis...@li...]On
> Behalf Of Bruce
> Winter
> Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2000 7:03 PM
> To: mis...@li...
> Subject: RE: [misterhouse-users] List header garbage
>
>
> > Does anyone know why messages on this list now have a bunch
> of extra stuff
> > appended to the header?  Like this:
> >
> > Reply-To: mis...@li...
> > List-Help:
> >
> <mailto:mis...@li...?subject=help>
>
> I don't see those new mail headers with MS Outlook.  I CAN
> see them if I
> look at the View->Options Internet Headers section.
>
> Mike says he is using Eudora Pro 3.0.  Any other mail programs having
> problems with those extra headers?  I don't think I can
> control them, but we
> can feed back the info to the sourceforge guys.
>
> Bruce
>
>
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