[Mailman-Users] Re: Example of bad line break in subject header

[Sumeet]

The biggest problem isn't really your particular email client, it's
procmail. I agree with you that it is not confined to any particular sort of
message plain text etc, all have subject wrapping turned on. I'm trying to
get around it by using some procmail magic, but the block format is really
hard to grep for. The fact that no one has been able to tackle this makes me
think it's a pretty big issue somewhere.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vince LaMonica" <vjl at soceco.uci.edu>
To: "Mitchell Marks" <mitchell at cuip.net>
Cc: "Tokio Kikuchi" <tkikuchi at is.kochi-u.ac.jp>; <mailman-users at python.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Example of bad line break in subject header


> On Monday, February 24, 2003, at 06:52 AM, Mitchell Marks wrote:
>
> > Thank you for these patches.  They didn't yet solve the problem.
> > However, I think I can clarify the circumstances under which it
> > occurs.  It seems to be not the list settings (for Language or
> > Personalization) which matter, but the message's original type.
> > Specifically, I'm seeing the problem when the message is text/html
> > when it arrives.  (MM is sending it back out as multipart/mixed).
> > These messages do not generally have any hi-bit or encoded characters
> > in their Subjects.
>
> We're seeing that problem here as well, though I've confirmed it has
> happened with text/plain as the content type [as sent out by MM]. I
> upgraded MM from 2.0.13 to 2.1.1 on the 16th of Feb, just before NOW
> reported the problem to MM-users. Unfortunately most of our users use
> Eudora [5.1.1 or 5.2 under win2k]. Some have HTML mail enabled, others
> don't.
>
> I usually use Pine [though sometimes OS X mail], and haven't seen the
> problem viewing mail from either of those MUAs. So far, the problem has
> affected all of our 30+ lists, as some folks seem to have the habit of
> making really long subjects. I've already hand-entered all of the
> users' real names into the list rosters, so I would hate to move back
> to 2.0.13 as that feature was not available.
>
> I have a development box that I can put MM on and test out if anyone
> has other patches that might be worth trying.
>
> Any advice would be most welcome.
>
> Thanks,
>
> /vjl/
>
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> Vince LaMonica               UC Irvine,  School  of  Social Ecology
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