Question about CookHeaders
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I have encountered a circumstance with Eudora users when receiving messages with long subject lines from mailman lists. The subject line in their email client is blank but if you open the message the entire subject line appears on a line beneath the blank one. I was looking through the CookHeaders.py script and saw the maxlinelen=78. What would be the consequences of increasing this number to 80 or 85?
I am using mailman 2.1.1-5 on RedHat Linux 9.
Bruce
Bruce Edward Embrey : Linux Systems Manager Campus Email Admin / NETREG : UNIX / Linux Administrator Hood College : embrey@hood.edu : Phone (301)696-3927
On 4/26/2004 13:53, "Bruce Embrey" embrey@hood.edu wrote:
I have encountered a circumstance with Eudora users when receiving messages with long subject lines from mailman lists. The subject line in their email client is blank but if you open the message the entire subject line appears on a line beneath the blank one. I was looking through the CookHeaders.py script and saw the maxlinelen=78. What would be the consequences of increasing this number to 80 or 85?
One consequence would be a potential violation of a SHOULD in RFC 2822...potential in that a "helpful" MTA might "improve" the too-long headers.
There are two limits that this standard places on the number of characters in a line. Each line of characters MUST be no more than 998 characters, and SHOULD be no more than 78 characters, excluding the CRLF.
It is likely that the headers would look bad in other MUAs.
My memory is claiming that Mailman 2.1.1 was well known for this problem...here's one reference to it: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/msg15984.html
--John
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Bruce Embrey
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John W. Baxter