[Mailman-Users] line breaks

[Mark Sapiro]

Sean wrote:
>
>Basically, they report messages coming through the list with odd line
>breaks.  For example:
>
> This is the text of their message.  After it is received from the list it
> places
> a line break so that some lines only contain one word and a new line
> starts.
>
>They feel it is the list doing this as they report the message looks fine
>when they send it to themselves.


At least in some cases, the problem is the original message is sent as
RFC 3676 format="flowed". In this format, the sending MUA creates
'paragraphs' and arbitrarily wraps lines at space characters leaving
trailing spaces in wrapped lines to indicate they should be joined to
the following line. The receiving MUA is supposed to rejoin the flowed
lines and then wrap them to its own display width, but Mailman, in the
process of adding message header and/or footer, and in the process of
scrubbing (if scrub-nondigest is Yes), removes the format="flowed"
parameter from the Content-Type: header, so the receiving MUA thinks
the format is "fixed".

I am currently testing a fix for this problem. See the bug report at
<https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1495122&group_id=103&atid=100103>
for further information and a patch.

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