Bugs item #1495122, was opened at 2006-05-25 12:24 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by msapiro You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=1495122&group_id=103 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: mail delivery Group: 2.1 (stable) Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Bart Jacobs (radiantskies) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Mailman strips format=flowed from Content-Type header Initial Comment: It seems that Mailman strips the format=flowed argument from the Content-Type: text/plain header when delivering incoming e-mails to subscribers. ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Comment By: Mark Sapiro (msapiro) Date: 2007-02-19 17:12

Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1123998 Originator: NO I have attached a patch (flowed.patch.txt) that applies to Mailman 2.1.9 and 2.1.8. Line numbers may need adjusting for earlier versions. This is a preliminary patch for testing and shouldn't be considered official at this point. Feedback will be appreciated. File Added: flowed.patch.txt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: P T Withington (ptwithy) Date: 2006-10-13 13:37 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=615189 Thanks, that's great. For now, I am very happy that I can just turn off my footer and get the right behavior (as a work-around). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Mark Sapiro (msapiro) Date: 2006-10-13 11:23 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1123998 Regarding the previous comment. I don't disagee with you, and my 2006-06-13 comment wasn't meant to imply that I wasn't interested in fixing this, just that there might be more to it than is apparent at first glance. I do have it on my 'to do' list. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: P T Withington (ptwithy) Date: 2006-10-13 10:05 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=615189 Man this bug drives me NUTS! Surely it is more important to maintain the content of the message that to quibble about the format on header/footer. Any halfway intelligent mail client will wrap long URLs, expecting them to be reflowed by the recipient, but since mailman strips out the format and delsp from the Content-type, the recipient is left in the lurch and sees the URL as multiple lines. In format-flowed, only lines that end in <space><linefeed> are re-flowed. If the header/footer lines end in <linefeed> they will not be reflowed, so I don't see the need to have a different format for them? What am I missing? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Mark Sapiro (msapiro) Date: 2006-06-13 09:34 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1123998 I think you have found the cause. Scrubber also does the same thing when flattening the message, but now we have a difficult decision. If we want to 'fix' Decorate, we now are faced with a situation where we may be adding a 'format=fixed' header and/or footer to a 'format=flowed' message body. This potential incompatability may require us to 'wrap' the message and add the header/footer as separate parts in this case. This will undoubtedly raise additional complaints. In the case of Scrubber, this may lead us to scrub the actual message body part - not a good thing. I may be over-reacting here. It may turn out that it is OK to render the header/footer/scrubber messages as 'format=flowed'. Although I can contrive a footer for example (by putting trailing spaces on intermediate lines) that will be munged by rendering as 'format=flowed', this may not be a problem in practice, and Decorate could always be made to strip the spaces. There are also potentially issues with stripping of leading spaces because of the assumption that they are 'stuffed'. I don't know how big an issue this is in practice. Note, if we do preserve 'format=' we also need to preserve 'delsp='. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Bart Jacobs (radiantskies) Date: 2006-06-12 23:54 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=924185 I've browsed the mailman source code a bit and I found some suspicious code in /trunk/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Decorate.py. If the list admin specifies a header or footer to be added to outgoing messages, then the content-type header is zapped and then regenerated from just the charset info, i.e. the format=flowed parameter is lost. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=1495122&group_id=103