On Mon, 2015-11-09 at 02:50 +0100, Ángel González wrote: > Pete Biggs wrote: > > > > > The Subject: line has a line feed in it. > > > > > > > > That's OK - in headers line feeds are allowed, the next line > > > > needs to > > > > be indented and it's treated as a single line *by mail aware > > > > programs*. > > > > Unfortunately dos2unix doesn't know about anything about mail! > > > > > > Then we really need a a new save target because it is impossible to > > > save a mail as it was written, the mbox target always converts NL > > > to > > > CR+NL > > > > RFC 2822 that defines MBOX format says that the line delimiter is > > CR/LF > > - so Evo is doing the correct thing. > > > > But you are right in saying that there should be a save target other > > than MBOX. It's not really something that has ever bothered me as I > > usually cut and paste from emails rather than saving. > > No. MBOX is a local storing format. No rfc defines it (and thus we have > mboxo, mboxrd, mboxcl, mboxcl2…) just like Maildir is not defined. > > What rfc 822 series defines is the format of an “email message” > (Internet Message Format).
Yes, I never found that CR+NL was required for mbox either. > > > Joakin wrote: > > Then we really need a a new save target because it is impossible to > > save a mail as it was written, the mbox target always converts NL to > > CR+NL > > As a workaround: View source, Select All, Copy, Paste in text editor, > Save Does not work, one often get extra WS, it is base64 encoded or just simply too big Jocke _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
