* James Morgenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001213 09:23]:
> I am somewhat hesitant to rely upon VERP's because I have seen several
> problems in how some email programs handle the = sign in the VERP. We all
> know that the = sign is a valid character for the local part of an email
> address according to the RFC, but there are many mail programs (definitely
> some clients, but how MTA's handle VERP's is unknown to me) which incorrect
> parse the = sign. The incorrect parsing results in something that looks
> like:
> list-action-username=userhost@listhost
> being interpreted as:
> userhost@listhost
>
> Has anyone else found problems with VERP's? I know that I have experienced
> several problems with mailto: and reply links when using ezmlm. Some
> clients that I know have problems are Yahoo, Excite, etc.
I have seen *exactly* this problem. In fact, the only webmail interface that
appears to do the right thing (make the link, *then* word-wrap) appears to
be sqwebmail. But all of the ``big'' ones like CNN, Hotmail, Yahoo, &c...all
break.
But I don't consider that a reason not to use VERPs. :-)
/pg
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