[Mailman-Users] Mailman + Exim + strange headers

Mark Sapiro mark at msapiro.net
Tue May 20 03:52:21 CEST 2014


On 05/19/2014 07:43 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> 
> Older versions of Mailman (I'm not sure how old) are known to
> sometimes modify the headers by unfolding them and then refolding them
> when reassembling the message.  This may still be true of the most
> recent versions.  I believe this is considered a bug but hard to fix,
> and probably not worth fixing for that reason.  Is this actually
> causing problems, or is it just ugly?


It is still true for current Mailman 2.1.x.

As of 2.1.13, Mailman no longer re-folds headers in message sub-parts in
order to fix <https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/265967>, but the
outer message headers may still be re-folded to conform to RFC length
recommendations.

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