[Mailman-Users] Any way to disable wrapping of the subject header?

[Adam Nielsen]

Hi all,

Mailman seems to like wrapping the e-mail subject when it gets too long 
(78 chars I think.)  Because this causes problems with many common 
e-mail clients (Outlook, Thunderbird, etc.) is there any way to disable 
the wrap?

The problem is that after "folding" the line (as RFC822 puts it) Mailman 
uses a tab character to indent the line below.  The RFC states that the 
CRLF+whitespace combination should be replaced by just the whitespace 
character used - and since Mailman uses CRLF+tab, after unfolding we end 
up with a tab character in the middle of the e-mail subject.

Thunderbird displays this using ASCII encoding (so you get a little 
round circle in the middle of the subject) whereas Outlook displays 
nothing at all (so you get people pointing out that you forgot to put a 
space in between those words.)  Some MTAs seem to expand the tab into 
eight spaces, leaving a large gap in the middle of the subject instead.

You can see examples of these in the messages posted to the list 
yesterday, e.g. "Apache,<tab>mailman and ScriptAlias - not as documented"

The easiest solution (for me) would be to just disable folding of that 
header, or alternatively to replace the tab with a space, so that e-mail 
clients display a single space as originally intended by the author 
instead of doing something funny with the tab character.

Does anyone know if there's a way to do this, or whereabouts in the code 
I should start looking?

Thanks,
Adam.