On Sun, Apr 23, 2023 at 11:21:19PM +0200, Björn Persson wrote:
> Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > One bug I hit setting this up this weekend... some (but not all) of the
> > categories appear to have newlines in the List-ID: header. ;( 
> > 
> > ie, 
> > 
> > List-ID: Fedora Discussion | Ask Fedora Ask in English
> >  <ask-in-english.ask-fedora.discussion.fedoraproject.org>
> > 
> > Hopefully this is a bug that can be fixed... 
> > 
> > So the above won't really work as the MATCH doesn't include the second
> > line with the actual listid in it, only the description. ;( 
> 
> I think you'll have to blame Procmail for that. What you show is called
> folding in RFC 5322. It's valid syntax if the continuation line begins
> with whitespace, which it looks like it does. Folding is even
> recommended for lines longer than 78 characters. Programs that parse
> email are supposed to unfold folded lines.
> 
> The complexities of text-based protocols provide for so much fun!

Indeed. Actually procmail matches on it fine, but it doesn't include the
part after the newline in $MATCH, which makes it harder to parse out the
second part if you want to use that to filter into a maildir with that
name. :( 

I can work around it, it just seems... unexpected and I wanted to
mention it in case others were going down that path.

kevin

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