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From: Jesper Harder <harder@ifa.au.dk>
Subject: Re: Continued header lines?
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 22:55:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3itdxlq1t.fsf@defun.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <iluwv2eaqu1.fsf@barbar.josefsson.org> (jas@extundo.com's message of "Tue, 2 Oct 2001 17:35:44 +0000 (UTC)")

jas@extundo.com (Simon Josefsson) writes:

> I found a IMAP server [1] that completely garble mail (data
> corruption) if you use long header lines such as
>
> Foo: bar
>  baz
>
> e.g. padding continuation header lines with SPC.  Using TAB instead
> seems to work.  Maybe Gnus should do what most other mailers seem to
> do (use TAB, that is)?

I think that would be wrong according to RFC 2822. If you fold

Foo: bar baz

as

Foo: bar
<HTAB>baz

Then you would get

Foo: bar<HTAB>baz

when unfolding the header, which isn't the same as the original.



  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-02 20:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-02 17:34 Simon Josefsson
2001-10-02 20:55 ` Jesper Harder [this message]
2001-10-03  9:26   ` Simon Josefsson
2001-10-03 14:57     ` Paul Jarc
2001-10-03 22:08       ` Jesper Harder
2001-10-04 15:07         ` Jeff Senn
2001-10-03 22:24     ` Jesper Harder

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