Re: controlling whether gnus splits long Subject: lines, for example, this one

[Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>]

Frank Schmitt <usereplyto@Frank-Schmitt.net> wrote:
> Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> writes:
>>Can any of you tell me how to convince Gnus (or whatever is
>>doing it) not to split long Subject lines in my outgoing messages?
>>
>>For example, when I look at my Gcc'd copy of this message,
>>I'll find that Gnus has inserted a newline into the above Subject line.
>
> Why do you want to do this? Long headers have to be splited since there
> is a maximum line length for header lines.

Are you sure they absolutely *must* be split?
Just because a standard says it must be done doesn't make it right --
though going against the standard can be painful :-)

My particular problem is in corresponding with people whose mail clients
put the split line back together in such a way that they end up removing
a space that (in the original subject) used to separate two words.

Here's an example:
Yesterday I sent a message with a subject like this:

  Subject: ............................................ remaining files associated ...

a colleague replied with this:

  Subject: ............................................ remaining filesassociated ...

to which I replied, and he replied again, with this:

  Subject: ............................................ remainingfilesassociated  ...

I don't like seeing my Subject: lines mangled like that.
It makes it much harder to find things in the archive later.
BTW, the mail client that pasted the lines together without
the intervening space appears to be Mozilla 4.73.