From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/40082 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Matt Armstrong" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: controlling whether gnus splits long Subject: lines, for example, this one Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 23:40:45 -0700 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87k7x33wya.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com> References: <87y9ljh7gu.fsf@pixie.eng.ascend.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035175688 31357 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:48:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:48:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 11149 invoked from network); 7 Nov 2001 06:44:07 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 7 Nov 2001 06:44:07 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 161MP2-0003RT-00; Wed, 07 Nov 2001 00:41:36 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 07 Nov 2001 00:41:13 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA21666 for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 00:40:55 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 11105 invoked by alias); 7 Nov 2001 06:41:07 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 11100 invoked from network); 7 Nov 2001 06:41:07 -0000 Original-Received: from hank.lickey.com (64.81.100.235) by gnus.org with SMTP; 7 Nov 2001 06:41:07 -0000 Original-Received: from squeaker.lickey.com (squeaker.lickey.com [192.168.100.10]) by hank.lickey.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E184EDA7 for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 23:40:52 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by squeaker.lickey.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0D2FBD28 for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 23:40:51 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: by squeaker.lickey.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 10239BD48; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 23:40:49 -0700 (MST) Original-To: Mail-Followup-To: usenet@Frank-Schmitt.net, ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.1 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA v0.40/Python 1.5.2 (linux2) X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20010714 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40082 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40082 Frank Schmitt writes: > Jim Meyering 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. Actually, they don't have to be split and many mailers do not do it. Gnus started doing it only recently. I believe the behavior is recommended by the standards though. But the answer to Jim's question is no -- the code that does this wrapping has no hook that allows any exceptions, nor is there a way to prevent the code from running when a message is sent. -- matt