Re: Majordomo drops multi-line Subject:

Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > I noticed that Majordomo drops the second and subsequent lines of a
> > Subject: line in message before dispatching for some reason. It has
> > done this for some time; I noticed it some time ago in pgsql-es-ayuda
> > but I thought it may be a bug in my MUA. But I just saw it happened to
> > a mail from Bruce as well.
>
> > Is this fixable?
>
> Even though multi-line Subject: is theoretically legal according to the
> RFCs, it's certainly an awful idea; how many MUAs do you know that
> provide more than one line to display the subject in a normal view?
> So I don't really care if Majordomo truncates the subject --- I wouldn't
> see the rest of it anyway.

Huh, but the MUA auto-unfolds it for view. Both mutt and Elm do that
fine -- the folding and unfolding. I would think exmh is pretty
thoroughly broken if it didn't.

We can do an experiment and send you a Cc'ed message through the list
and a copy to you directly. The direct copy should have the full
subject, and the list one would be truncated.

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