Re: Prevent line breaks in subject

Re: Prevent line breaks in subject

[Jesper Harder]

Torsten Bronger <bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de> writes:

> My Gnus inserts line breaks within the subject header (subject
> folding), at least if umlauts are present.

It's not related to non-ASCII characters per se.  Any subject line
longer than 78 characters is folded -- it's just that RFC 2047
encoding of non-ASCII characters tend to make the line longer, thus
increasing the probability of folding.

> This may well be compliant behaviour, however follow-ups with
> Mozilla change the subject

I thought this bug in Mozilla was fixed years ago,
cf. <http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37088>

> How can I avoid these line breaks?

That would violate various standards.  There are no existing options
to request that, but this might work:

  (defalias 'mail-header-fold-field 'identity)
  (defalias 'rfc2047-fold-region 'ignore)

Re: Prevent line breaks in subject

[Torsten Bronger]

Halloechen!

Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:

> Torsten Bronger <bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de> writes:
>
>> Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:
>>
>>> I thought this bug in Mozilla was fixed years ago,
>>> cf. <http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37088>
>>
>> Well, apparently that's a slightly different issue because my
>> discussion partner uses
>>
>> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113
>
> Can you show an example of a header sent by Gnus, and what it looks
> like in the reply by Mozilla?

I sent news:m3brop9ncn.fsf@wilson.rwth-aachen.de and the follow-up
was <news:4016DA38.30909@jubelperser.dialin.t-online.de>.  Both
should be on Google Groups.

>>> There are no existing options to request that, but this might
>>> work:
>>>
>>>   (defalias 'mail-header-fold-field 'identity)
>>>   (defalias 'rfc2047-fold-region 'ignore)
>>
>> Thank you, I'll give it a try.
>
> Oh, well, it only prevents folding of ASCII subjects.  You can't
> prevent folding of non-ASCII headers except by:

There are other problems, too.  I use the agent and every time I
select a message in the summary buffer I see the visible bell and a
strange error message occurs.  But I leave it anyway.  Partly
because:

Again, to all: Is it true that the newest version of Gnus doesn't do
this folding?  For example, 86wu7dixub.fsf@ID-24456.user.dfncis.de
took also part in the discussion and his

    Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux)

didn't do it.

Tschoe,
Torsten.

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