[Mailman-Developers] [ mailman-Bugs-540978 ] eMailadress too long ?

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Bugs item #540978, was opened at 2002-04-08 14:56
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Category: mail delivery
Group: 2.1 beta
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Markus Mandalka (mandalka)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: eMailadress too long ?

Initial Comment:
I have a list 
antiatomforum@lists.kommunikationssystem.de and others 
with long names.

It seems that mailman can not handle with such long 
names, because in the subscribe-mail (which you have 
to answer to be in the list) the first columns are 
some things from the header (unsubscribe: 
xxx@lists.xxx and so on).

Whith names like atest@lists.kommunikationssystem.de 
it works.

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Comment By: Jean Millerat (drsigmund)
Date: 2002-07-04 10:13

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I have reached the same bug with mailing list adresses such as
<11 characters>@<30 characters> whereas <8 characters>@<30
characters> works properly. The effect of this bug is that
the headers of the subcription annoucement or any further
email from the list are "mangled" as was said on
[mailman-developers]. As an example when one of the List-*
header line is too long, it is broken in two parts (and the
second part is indented). Since then, Outlook (and I suppose
other email clients) think this second part of the broken
header line is the beginning of the body of the message.
Therefore the remaining headers are sent as part of the body
of the message !

I think this bug does not only occur with too long email
adresses but may occur with too long header lines whichever
line it is (even with the Subject line especially when this
subject line is very long because of quoted-printable
characters). See [mailman-developers] for the description of
maybe the same bug, in mails dealing with headers being
"mangled".

My current workarounds :
- using short mailing list names.
- and not sending quoted-printable characters within subject
lines.

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Comment By: Giovanni Lopedote (giuans)
Date: 2002-05-02 16:27

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I've found it. A fast fix for is to comment lines 149-150 
in Mailman/Handlers:/CookHeaders.py:

--- CookHeaders.py      2002-05-02 14:51:36.000000000 +0200
+++ CookHeaders.py.new  2002-05-02 16:12:09.000000000 +0200
@@ -146,8 +146,8 @@
         # Wrap these lines if they are too long.  78 
character width probably
         # shouldn't be hardcoded, but is at least 
text-MUA friendly.  The
         # adding of 2 is for the colon-space separator.
-        if len(h) + 2 + len(v) > 78:
-            v = CONTINUATION.join(v.split(', '))
+#        if len(h) + 2 + len(v) > 78:
+#            v = CONTINUATION.join(v.split(', '))
         msg[h] = v
     # Always delete List-Archive header, but only add it 
back if the list is
     # actually archiving

Tested with Mailman 2.1b1, Source Mage GNU/Linux 2.4.18, 
Postfix 1.1.7.
I know there should be a better way, but I'm not a Python 
programmer at all. :)


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Comment By: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw)
Date: 2002-04-12 00:03

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I've confirmed this bug, but don't have a fix for it right now.

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