From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/54402 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: format=flowed not respected Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 08:31:21 +0200 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87smlmzza4.fsf@home.lan> <874qy2wk5b.fsf@doohan.bang.priv.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1066804320 4594 80.91.224.253 (22 Oct 2003 06:32:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 06:32:00 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M2943@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Oct 22 08:31:57 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ACCXF-0001Gu-00 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 08:31:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1ACCX2-0002tG-00; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 01:31:44 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1ACCWu-0002tA-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 01:31:36 -0500 Original-Received: from yxa.extundo.com (178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net [217.13.230.178]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 377293A005D for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 01:31:34 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from latte (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id h9M6VV1e027958 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 08:31:32 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Payment: hashcash 1.2 0:031022:ding@gnus.org:b5156b538c1ef32c X-Hashcash: 0:031022:ding@gnus.org:b5156b538c1ef32c In-Reply-To: <874qy2wk5b.fsf@doohan.bang.priv.no> (Steinar Bang's message of "Tue, 21 Oct 2003 19:55:12 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54402 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54402 Steinar Bang writes: >>>>>> Simon Josefsson : > >> So Opera is breaking a SHOULD in RFC 2646 when it does not break the >> lines before the 80th column. Gnus is behaving correctly in this >> example, as far as I can tell. > > But the broken SHOULD isn't the culprit, right? If the lines in > questions had had a trailing space, Gnus would have broken them? No, the receiving MUA only flow lines together, it doesn't break lines. E.g. if you receive foo barSPC baz fooSPC bar Gnus would flow that together into foo bar baz foo bar I don't recall the specification saying anything about breaking (even overlong) lines, at the receiving end.