Re: Majordomo drops multi-line Subject:

On 23.08.2006, at 16:51 Uhr, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> Guido Neitzer wrote:
>
>> ----8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<----
>> 2.2.1. Unstructured Header Field Bodies
>>
>>
>> Some field bodies in this standard are defined simply as
>> "unstructured" (which is specified below as any US-ASCII
>> characters,
>> except for CR and LF) with no further restrictions. These are
>> referred to as unstructured field bodies. Semantically,
>> unstructured
>> field bodies are simply to be treated as a single line of
>> characters
>> with no further processing (except for header "folding" and
>> "unfolding" as described in section 2.2.3).
>>
>> ----8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<----
>
> So see what "folding" means. Section 2.2.3 says
>
> 2.2.3. Long Header Fields
>
>
> Each header field is logically a single line of characters
> comprising
> the field name, the colon, and the field body. For convenience
> however, and to deal with the 998/78 character limitations per
> line,
> the field body portion of a header field can be split into a
> multiple
> line representation; this is called "folding". The general rule is
> that wherever this standard allows for folding white space (not
> simply WSP characters), a CRLF may be inserted before any WSP. For
> example, the header field:

Interesting. Haven't seen that. Thanks for the hint. Not really
intuitive, but okay.

cug