Mutt eating the tab character in headers

2012-05-25 Thread Aaron Toponce
I have an "easter egg", if you will, in the header of my mail. I have two headers that I am adding: "Crypto-Challenge" and "Crypto-Hint". It's all for fun and games. However, in my muttrc(5), I am wrapping each line (It's rather lengthy otherwise) and preceding the newline with a character. It sh

Re: Mutt eating the tab character in headers

2012-05-25 Thread Chris Burdess
Aaron Toponce wrote: > I have an "easter egg", if you will, in the header of my mail. I have two > headers that I am adding: "Crypto-Challenge" and "Crypto-Hint". It's all > for fun and games. > > However, in my muttrc(5), I am wrapping each line (It's rather lengthy > otherwise) and preceding the

Re: Mutt eating the tab character in headers

2012-05-25 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 03:24:38PM +0100, Chris Burdess wrote: > I would think that it doesn't actually matter whether mutt does this or > not, since any intervening MTAs are free to do this as they want. As > long as the result is valid RFC822, header whitespace may be changed or > whatever. Only

Re: Mutt eating the tab character in headers

2012-05-25 Thread Chris Burdess
Aaron Toponce wrote: > On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 03:24:38PM +0100, Chris Burdess wrote: > > I would think that it doesn't actually matter whether mutt does this or > > not, since any intervening MTAs are free to do this as they want. As > > long as the result is valid RFC822, header whitespace may be

Re: Mutt eating the tab character in headers

2012-05-25 Thread Derek Martin
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 09:05:34AM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: > On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 03:24:38PM +0100, Chris Burdess wrote: > > I would think that it doesn't actually matter whether mutt does this or > > not, since any intervening MTAs are free to do this as they want. As > > long as the result

Re: Mutt eating the tab character in headers

2012-05-25 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:50:07AM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > There's a lot to wade through, but the answer is here: > > http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/2995 > > It turns out this is kind of hard to get exactly right. Paying closer attention to some other headers, it appears that some softwa

Re: Mutt eating the tab character in headers [some really long text I added upon message creation to see how the wrapping is handled]

2012-05-25 Thread Derek Martin
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:44:02AM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: > On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:50:07AM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > > There's a lot to wade through, but the answer is here: > > > > http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/2995 > > > > It turns out this is kind of hard to get exactly right.