HHC 2004

[Eric Smith]

Richard Schwartz wrote:
> The return address for the list message is "list
>  hhc at lists.handheld.org", which seems to include some invisible characters
> a carriage return and a line feed.   To reply to the list message, I have
> to strip this out.

The mailing list software (GNU Mailman) generates a correctly formed
RFC 822 Reply-To: header on each message.  For instance, your message
arrived in my mailbox with this header (with special characters
described in square brackets):

Reply-To: richas at earthlink.net, Handheld Computing Conference discussion
list[newline]
[tab character]<hhc at lists.handheld.org>

RFC 822 section 3.2 on header field definitions allows multiline header
field bodies, with subsequent lines beginning with a space or tab.
Section 6.1 on address specifications allows for addresses specified as
a series of uninterpreted words or quoted strings with an email address
inside angle brackets.

What email reader are you using?  It apparently is not standards-compliant.
I've tried several different mail readers, and they all handle the
Reply-To: correctly.  This is the first time I've heard of problems
with it.

Eric