[Mailman-Developers] Bug in mail->news gateway in 2.0.5 (and *simple* fix)

Barry A. Warsaw barry@zope.com
Sat, 20 Oct 2001 16:30:32 -0400


>>>>> "BAW" =3D=3D Barry A Warsaw <barry@zope.com> writes:

    BAW> Many months ago...

>>>>> "jae" =3D=3D J=FCrgen A Erhard <juergen.erhard@gmx.net> writes:

    jae> Bug: in Mailman/Handlers/ToUsenet.py, there are spaces
    jae> inserted after colons where they are missing ("NNTP is strict
    jae> about spaces after the colon in headers").

    jae> If a colon appears in a continuation line, it is treated as a
    jae> header colon.

    jae> Fix: skip lines that start with whitespace.

    BAW> This fix should now be on-line.

I should add that MM2.1 won't be affected because it uses the
email.Message.Message class which already Does The Right Thing.

-Barry