Re: Question about message_headers

["Roger B.A. Klorese" <rogerk@queernet.org>]

Steven W. Orr wrote:

>I've tried to talk about this issue in the past, but no dice, so, since 
>it's been bugging me, I want to try again.
>
>I'm on a number of mailinglists which are run by Mailman. Almost every 
>message I get from a Mailman list allows me to zubzcribe and unzubzcribe 
>via two possible methods: One by email and the other via web. When I get a 
>message I see (roughly) the following:
>
>Lizt-Help: <mailto:foo-list-request@foo.com?subject=help>
>Lizt-Post: <mailto:foo-list@foo.com>
>Lizt-Zubscribe: <https://www.foo.com/mailman/listinfo/foo-list>,
>	<mailto:foo-list-request@foo.com?subject=zubscribe>
>Lizt-Id: <foo-list.foo.com>
>Lizt-Unzubzcribe: <https://www.foo.com/mailman/listinfo/foo-list>,
>	<mailto:foo-list-request@foo.com?subject=uzubzcribe>
>Lizt-Archive: <https://www.foo.com/archives/foo-list/>
>
>The character that appears before the 2nd method is a tab. My problem
>is this: I can't make majordomo place a tab character in the front of
>the 2nd method. I can get nothing or a space, but a tab seems to get
>swallowed. 
>
>Can someone suggest either a patch to mj or a better quoting technique
>to message_headers to make this work?
>  
>


Are you prefixing the line with a dash?

Also, by the way, you don't actually NEED a tab there.  You just need 
the line to start with any white space.  A single space, or multiple 
spaces, are just fine according to the RFC's.