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 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: 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