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From: lzm@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Chris McCoy)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: RFC822 Question w.r.t Elm
Keywords: rfc822
Message-ID: <5152@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 20 Jul 90 19:18:01 GMT
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I have been working on a scanner/parser for e-mail, as defined in
RFC822.  So far I have noticed one very tiny conflict that is
generated by Elm.  When Elm generates an "In-Reply-To" header line,
it puts a ";" after the msg-id.  According to RFC822 (strictly), this
delimeter is no longer valid (even though it may be valid according to
RFC733).

Does anyone know why it is there?  I only noticed it because my parser
pointed it out.

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