Re: Majordomo drops multi-line Subject:

It most likely conforms strictly to <a
href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc822#page-21">Rfc 822</a> which is
the standard, and mostly canonical, and allows for CR and LF but not the
two together (CRLF), if I'm reading it correctly:

text = <any CHAR, including bare ; => atoms, specials,
CR & bare LF, but NOT ; comments and
including CRLF> ; quoted-strings are
; NOT recognized.

optional-field =

/ "Message-ID" ":" msg-id
/ "Resent-Message-ID" ":" msg-id
/ "In-Reply-To" ":" *(phrase / msg-id)
/ "References" ":" *(phrase / msg-id)
/ "Keywords" ":" #phrase
/ "Subject" ":" *text
/ "Comments" ":" *text
/ "Encrypted" ":" 1#2word
/ extension-field ; To be defined
/ user-defined-field ; May be pre-empted

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
>> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>> Can you have multi-line subject lines? I didn't think that was
>> possible.
>>
>
> Yes. This is the header of a mail you sent to -patches:
>
> From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
> To: Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM>
> CC: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 09:05:29 -0400 (EDT)
> Subject: Re: [PATCHES] Allow commenting of variables in
>
>
> Note the Subject is truncated w.r.t. the mail you were responding, which
> had this:
>
> From: Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM>
> To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
> Cc: pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org, bruce(at)momjian(dot)us
> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:44:19 +0200
> Subject: Re: [PATCHES] Allow commenting of variables in postgresql.conf to -
>
> See your sent-mail folder, you'll see that the message you actually sent
> had something like this:
>
> Subject: Re: [PATCHES] Allow commenting of variables in
> postgresql.conf to -
>
>
> What happened with the second line? What I concluded has happened, from
> observations on the other list, Majordomo removed it.
>
>

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