Line wrapping [was: [ANN] GUI log, status, and commit]
Jens Alfke
jens at mooseyard.com
Tue Aug 21 16:21:04 CDT 2007
On 20 Aug '07, at 3:16 PM, Benoit Boissinot wrote:
> Actually this is very likely the client fault, I don't think that
> mailman messes with the messages at all.
It doesn't alter the bodies, but it does mess with the Content-Type
headers.
I took a look at one of my messages to the list, as I sent it vs. how
it arrived. It went out with:
> Content-Type: text/plain;
> charset=US-ASCII;
> format=flowed;
> delsp=yes
but as received from the listserv, it had:
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Dropping the "format=flowed" attribute has the effect of disabling
soft line-wrapping, so the recipient has to display the message as
transmitted, with hard line-breaks at 75 columns (as required by
SMTP). (See RFC 2646 for the gory details.)
Does Mailman have some "Don't Screw With Content-Type" setting that
could be enabled, or is this just a bug?
--Jens
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