Re: Question about message_headers

["Steven W. Orr" <steveo@syslang.net>]

On Sunday, May 18th 2003 at 16:02 -0700, quoth Roger B.A. Klorese:

=>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.

I am not prefixing the line with a dash. Should I? What would that do?

I think I do need a tab. I am running pine and the subsequent value in a 
multiline header is properly recognized if the leading character is a tab.
Are you recognizing multiple methods from a pine list using some other 
mailer?

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