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

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Sat Dec 13 18:25:31 EST 2003


On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 04:52, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> 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.

Fixed for 2.1.4.

-Barry





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