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From: Jesper Harder <harder@ifa.au.dk>
Subject: Re: Folding long header lines
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 23:50:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3lmflprob.fsf@defun.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m31yhdof41.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (larsi@gnus.org's message of "Sat, 29 Dec 2001 22:20:24 +0000 (UTC)")

larsi@gnus.org (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen) writes:

> To be compliant, Gnus folds long header lines [..]
> Either:
>
> 1) This is OK, since it's perfectly valid and stuff
> 2) It's annoying that Gnus folds lines that it has no
>    way of putting back together again, so it should just stop
> 3) It should do extra RFC2047 coding around the folding just
>    so that the recipient can put the header back together again
> 4) Gnus should just remove all folding when displaying headers
>
> None of these options seem particularly attractive to me, so I must be
> missing some option or other.

I think 4) is best, at least that's what RFC 2822 says (section 2.2.3).




  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-29 22:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-29 22:06 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2001-12-29 22:50 ` Jesper Harder [this message]
2001-12-29 23:16   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2001-12-30  0:37 ` Russ Allbery
2001-12-30  1:20   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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