[Mailman-Users] text/plain flowed wrapping

[Steve Foster]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, Mark Sapiro wrote:

> On 11/30/2010 7:44 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
>> Sounds like an MTA issue. Have you checked that? Should be easy using
>> tcpdump or something along these lines.
>>
>
> It could be an MTA issue, but it seems to me more likely to be an MUA
> issue. The reason I think it is not as likely to be an MTA is if the
> original is Format="flowed", it would have no long lines so there would
> be no reason for an MTA to do anything to the message in transmission.

Just been looking at this in more detail, the message is being sent with 
the headers:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

The encoding is maintained through the Mailman queues and handlers. At 
some point between it leaving Mailman and coming out the other end of the 
MTA (sendmail) the encoding gets mangled.

I'll dig a bit more deeply in the MTA and see if its playing silly 
beggers.

Cheers

Steve

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