[Mailman-Developers] List-Id header special ','

Jan Kratochvil rcpt-mailman-developers.AT.python.org at jankratochvil.net
Sat Dec 13 04:52:29 EST 2003


Hi,

Mailman currently permits any list 'description' string. It is later inserted
to 'List-Id' header such as:
	List-Id: Patches for autoconf, the GNU build system <autoconf-patches.gnu.org>

This header does not comply with RFC2919 and RFC822/RFC2822 as it uses
a forbidden special ','. 'description' is allowed to be only 'phrase' of RFC822.

It would be needed to quote it:
	List-Id: "Patches for autoconf, the GNU build system" <autoconf-patches.gnu.org>

Please either forbid 'special' characters such as ',' or quote the header
if such offending character is found.



Regards,
Lace



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