#2995: Mutt is folding subject line folds using a tab, which appears to be
against
RFC 2822
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Reporter: frnkblk | Owner: mutt-dev
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone: 1.6
Component: mutt | Version: 1.5.17
Resolution: | Keywords: header folding white-space
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Comment(by Rocco Rutte):
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[ Sorry for the looong delay, I just overlooked this one. ]
Hi,
* Derek Martin wrote:
Yepp, this is what it's like now, i.e. broken.
I was more justifying why, in my re-implementation, decided to keep
using one function for display and send purposes. With my patch, folding
works correctly. Again, folding is done not for all headers but only for
those who need it, others including their way of folding are kept as-is.
Oh, that's a really good point. At each edit (from the compose menu),
Mutt know unfolds the header and refolds it using the new logic. I bet
it throws \t away as part of unfolding :-(. I think it has to unfold the
header as otherwise the user would have to do folding by hand. E.g. the
user may change
Subject: quite long
folded long line
another line
to:
Subject: quite long and even longer
folded long line
another line that gets way too long
Not stripping the \t when unfolding is technically correct and is what
RfC2822 says, but it'll break messages sent by mutt in the past made
with wrong folding (upon reply, the header is already folded and so not
touched by the folding implementation)... :(
I disagree now that I rewrote it and it passes my simple tests. :-) Did
you have a chance to try the patch?
Rocco
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