[Mailman-Developers] Subject's being mangled (I'm extendeding the length of this subject to see how it wraps)

[Tokio Kikuchi]

> I have no problem with the subject getting wrapped ... however I do have 
> a problem with the WAY the subject is getting wrapped.
> 
> In the examples I posted, the messages entire subject was getting 
> wrapped to another line ... it was not getting wrapped when the text 
> exceeded a specific length.  This has the affect of making most mail 
> client software (that I'm using, Eudora and Squirrelmail) showing a 
> blank subject or just the subject prefix.

MUA developers should take care the RFC. In RFC-2822,

subject         =       "Subject:" unstructured CRLF
unstructured    =       *([FWS] utext) [FWS]
..., any CRLF that appears in FWS is semantically "invisible."

So, any MUA which treat the folding CR/LF as a meaningful line
separation is not RFC compliant.

I know it's weired but will take a lot of hacking because this is
caused by email package on which mailman relies.

-- 
Tokio Kikuchi, tkikuchi@ is.kochi-u.ac.jp
http://weather.is.kochi-u.ac.jp/