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repl address formatting

#2018
From: davy
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 1990 16:33
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Repl has this obnoxious feature.  On very long addresses, it formats the
return address with a person's name on the first line, and the address
on the second line.  For example:

 To: Colin Walls
     <ctw%sun.central-services.umist.ac.uk@NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK>
 cc: UNIX-SW-REQUEST
     <@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil:UNIX-SW-REQUEST@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil>

Unfortunately, post then chokes on this complaining that the address
loses and it's not delivered to anyone.  I assume it's because there's
no legal address on the first line.

The question is, how can I fix this?  Can I change my replcomps?  I don't
see anything in there that sets a field width.  Is post the actual culprit?
Can it be fixed?

Here's the pertinent info:

~/Mail/replcomps:

%(lit)%(formataddr %<{reply-to}%|%<{from}%|%<{sender}%|%{return-path}%>%>%>)\
%<(nonnull)%(void(width))%(putaddr To: )\n%>\
%(lit)%(formataddr{to})%(formataddr{cc})%(formataddr(me))\
%<(nonnull)%(void(width))%(putaddr cc: )\n%>\
%<{subject}Subject: Re: %{subject}\n%>\
%<{date}In-reply-to: Your message of \
%<(nodate{date}){date}%|%(pretty{date})%>.%<{message-id}
             %{message-id}%>\n%>\
Fcc: outbox\n\
Bcc: \n\
--------

repl -help:

version: MH 6.6 #1[UCI] (cocofs) of Mon Jan 30 18:04:09 PST 1989
options: [ATHENA] [ATZ] [BIND] [BERK] [BSD42] [BSD43] [DPOP] [RPOP]
         [DUMB] [FOLDPROT='"0755"'] [ISI] [MHE] [MHRC] [NFS] [NOMHSEQ]
         [OVERHEAD] [RPATHS] [SBACKUP='"#"'] [TTYD] [UCI] [WHATNOW]
         [SENDMTS] [SMTP] [POP]

--Dave Curry
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Subject: repl address formatting
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Date: 9 Mar 90 16:33:08 GMT
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