Thread: Subject line wrapping truncated
Are we any closer to fixing the mail servers do they don't truncate
multi-line subjects, e.g.?
Re: [PATCHES] [BUGS] BUG #2846: inconsistent and confusing
My mail reader, elm, does long subject wrapping on replies, but our mail
software is truncating it.
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On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 04:05:35PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Are we any closer to fixing the mail servers do they don't truncate
> multi-line subjects, e.g.?
You shouldn't have to fix that. RFC 2822 is pretty clear that the
limits are 78 characters per line, which should be folded to a
maximum of a total character length of 998. AFAIK both Postfix and
Sendmail do this correctly.
A
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Andrew Sullivan wrote: > On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 04:05:35PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Are we any closer to fixing the mail servers do they don't truncate > > multi-line subjects, e.g.? > > You shouldn't have to fix that. RFC 2822 is pretty clear that the > limits are 78 characters per line, which should be folded to a > maximum of a total character length of 998. AFAIK both Postfix and > Sendmail do this correctly. OK, what in our toolchain doesn't? Mailman? -- Bruce Momjian bruce@momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +
On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 17:58 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 04:05:35PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > Are we any closer to fixing the mail servers do they don't truncate
> > > multi-line subjects, e.g.?
> >
> > You shouldn't have to fix that. RFC 2822 is pretty clear that the
> > limits are 78 characters per line, which should be folded to a
> > maximum of a total character length of 998. AFAIK both Postfix and
> > Sendmail do this correctly.
>
> OK, what in our toolchain doesn't? Mailman?
We don't use mailman, we use some obscure m2 thing.
Joshua D> Drake
>
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On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 15:04 -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 17:58 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 04:05:35PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > > Are we any closer to fixing the mail servers do they don't truncate
> > > > multi-line subjects, e.g.?
> > >
> > > You shouldn't have to fix that. RFC 2822 is pretty clear that the
> > > limits are 78 characters per line, which should be folded to a
> > > maximum of a total character length of 998. AFAIK both Postfix and
> > > Sendmail do this correctly.
> >
> > OK, what in our toolchain doesn't? Mailman?
>
> We don't use mailman, we use some obscure m2 thing.
I tried to send a long subject line message to the list, and it never
appeared.
Joshua D. Drake
>
> Joshua D> Drake
>
>
> >
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On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 17:58 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 04:05:35PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > Are we any closer to fixing the mail servers do they don't truncate
> > > multi-line subjects, e.g.?
> >
> > You shouldn't have to fix that. RFC 2822 is pretty clear that the
> > limits are 78 characters per line, which should be folded to a
> > maximum of a total character length of 998. AFAIK both Postfix and
> > Sendmail do this correctly.
>
> OK, what in our toolchain doesn't? Mailman?
>
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> ------- Original Message ------- > From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> > To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> > Sent: 28/12/06, 23:51:49 > Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Subject line wrapping truncated > > > I tried to send a long subject line message to the list, and it never > appeared. It landed in the mod queue - for some reason it got flagged as a duplicate. /D