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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