From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/41128 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Folding long header lines Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 16:37:27 -0800 Organization: The Eyrie Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035176573 4505 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:02:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:02:53 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 7034 invoked from network); 30 Dec 2001 00:38:15 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 30 Dec 2001 00:38:15 -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 16KTz8-00009I-00; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 18:37:54 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 29 Dec 2001 18:37:46 -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 SAA29769 for ; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 18:37:36 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 7014 invoked by alias); 30 Dec 2001 00:37:33 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 7009 invoked from network); 30 Dec 2001 00:37:33 -0000 Original-Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (171.64.13.23) by gnus.org with SMTP; 30 Dec 2001 00:37:33 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 7719 invoked by uid 50); 30 Dec 2001 00:37:27 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sat, 29 Dec 2001 23:06:54 +0100") Original-Lines: 40 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp, sparc-sun-solaris2.6) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41128 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41128 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > To be compliant, Gnus folds long header lines (like User-Agent in this > message). However, Gnus doesn't use RFC2047 coding on headers that > don't, er, need RFC2047 coding (i. e., only contains US-ASCII > characters). So when displaying these, Gnus doesn't un-fold the headers > again, leading to what you see here -- a two-line User-Agent header. > 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'm not entirely sure that I understand this message, but in case the following information is helpful: Folding is not, per the mail standards, semantically part of the header. In other words, RFC 2822 says that: Subject: This is folded is equivalent to: Subject: This is folded Which seems to argue in favor of either 1) or 4). (Personally, I'd rather see headers folded for display than see headers wrap because they're over 80 columns; folded headers are easier to read.) I definitely don't like the sound of 3); the less RFC 2047 has to be used, the better. -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)