[Mailman-Users] Re: Example of bad line break in subject header

[Vince LaMonica]

On Monday, February 24, 2003, at 06:52 AM, Mitchell Marks wrote:

> Thank you for these patches.  They didn't yet solve the problem.  
> However, I think I can clarify the circumstances under which it 
> occurs.  It seems to be not the list settings (for Language or 
> Personalization) which matter, but the message's original type.  
> Specifically, I'm seeing the problem when the message is text/html 
> when it arrives.  (MM is sending it back out as multipart/mixed).  
> These messages do not generally have any hi-bit or encoded characters 
> in their Subjects.

We're seeing that problem here as well, though I've confirmed it has 
happened with text/plain as the content type [as sent out by MM]. I 
upgraded MM from 2.0.13 to 2.1.1 on the 16th of Feb, just before NOW 
reported the problem to MM-users. Unfortunately most of our users use 
Eudora [5.1.1 or 5.2 under win2k]. Some have HTML mail enabled, others 
don't.

I usually use Pine [though sometimes OS X mail], and haven't seen the 
problem viewing mail from either of those MUAs. So far, the problem has 
affected all of our 30+ lists, as some folks seem to have the habit of 
making really long subjects. I've already hand-entered all of the 
users' real names into the list rosters, so I would hate to move back 
to 2.0.13 as that feature was not available.

I have a development box that I can put MM on and test out if anyone 
has other patches that might be worth trying.

Any advice would be most welcome.

Thanks,

/vjl/

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