Fw: [Mailman-Users] Re: Example of bad line break in subject header
Sumeet Pannu
sumeetp at hotmail.com
Tue Feb 25 00:00:33 CET 2003
I think the lack of response probably has everyone stumped on this bug
(feature?). If it is a feature than there should certainly be a turn off
botton. When subjects are too long, they get indented, which breaks procmail
rules.
I propose the following workarounds:
1. Migrate back to 2.0.13. Can anyone give me insight into the posibility of
doing this and if it's even possible, ie, will the messages, archives remain
there?
2. Does anyone have any idea how to force sendmail to pipe ALL mailman
messages to procmail and set up a rule to remove the tabs before sending the
message to the users, but after it has already mangled the subject line?
thanks, sumeet.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sumeet Pannu" <sumeetp at hotmail.com>
To: <mailman-users at python.org>; "Mitchell Marks" <mitchell at cuip.net>
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 12:52 AM
Subject: [Mailman-Users] Re: Example of bad line break in subject header
> This is clearly what I meant to say in my last post. Doug Brandon also has
> this issue and no one was able to address it for him. I have the same
issue
> as Mr. Marks. Would someone please point me to the correct Headers.py
patch
> referred to below, perhaps my mileage will be better than Mr. Marks'.
> Alternatively a migration back to 2.0.13 would be acceptable if anyone has
> done this. Thanks, sumeet.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mitchell Marks" <mitchell at cuip.net>
> To: <mailman-users at python.org>
> Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 3:48 PM
> Subject: Example of bad line break in subject header was Re:
[Mailman-Users]
> Upgrade from 2.0.x to 2.1.1-- incorrect padding error.
>
>
> > I'm enclosing below the full headers from Sumeet P's recent message, as
> > they reached me. This shows the formatting problem discussed last week,
> > mentioned on the Mailman-Users list by Sarah from NOW and seconded by
me,
> > and also turned over a little on the Developers list.
> >
> > The discussion on Developers included requests for an example that would
> > reproduce the problem. I don't know if this one will show the same
> > behavior if re-tried on another installation, but here we can at least
see
> > it happening someplace we can observe in common. (In case this gets
> > mangled on the way back through, the Subject header as I've received it
> and
> > pasted below is: first line " [Mailman-Users] " then second line a Tab
and
> > the rest " Upgrade from 2.0.x to 2.1.1-- incorrect padding error. ")
> >
> > I've installed the recommended Headers.py patch (and checked that it is
> > /this/ headers.py that is being used), and I thought briefly that the
> > problem was solved for my installation -- but it isn't. I'll quote a
> > subject string that I've seen problems with, but note that whether it's
> > reproducible seems to depend on what list it's going through. Here's
the
> > example: "[CUIP Activity] NSPTECH 2097 Alex Wilson Wednesday
2003-01-15
> > OS install/Printer Install". It breaks after the list tag [CUIP
> Activity],
> > and so do test messages with longish subjects that go through that
> > list. But if I send a message with that same header through a Test list
> > (or any of several others), it doesn't break funny. I'm trying to
figure
> > out the differences between the lists, but haven't managed to make the
> > error happen in the Test list by fiddling with Language Options and
> > Personalization.
> >
> > I'm close to ready to just suppress all wrapping in Subjects if that
would
> > cure this oddity. Would that be a disaster waiting to happen? How hard
> > would it be (I don't know much about the Mailman python code)?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mitch Marks
> >
> > P.S. The point was made in the Developers discussion that Eudora's
> > handling of the newlines in the summary windows may not accord to the
> > relevant standard. Would someone who can speak to this fairly
> > authoritatively feel like sending a report/suggestion in Qualcomm's
> > direction? This is indeed only bothering Eudora users here. (Including
> me...)
> >
> >
> > The headers for the example passing through Mailman-Users:
> >
> > >At 03:23 PM 2/23/03, Sumeet wrote:
> > >X-Originating-IP: [65.113.40.130]
> > >From: "Sumeet" <sumeetp at hotmail.com>
> > >To: <mailman-users at python.org>
> > >Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 13:23:58 -0800
> > >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200
> > >X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Feb 2003 21:23:59.0699 (UTC)
> > > FILETIME=[E14D2A30:01C2DB81]
> > >X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.4 required=5.0
> > >
> >
>
tests=BODY_PYTHON_ZOPE,FORGED_HOTMAIL_RCVD,FROM_BIGISP,LARGE_HEX,SPAM_PHRAS
> > >E_00_01,USER_AGENT_OE
> > >X-Spam-Level: *
> > >Subject: [Mailman-Users]
> > > Upgrade from 2.0.x to 2.1.1-- incorrect padding error.
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