Re: [HACKERS] Truncation of email subject lines
Hi, Bruce, Bruce Momjian wrote: Should I try hacking my mail reader to prevent this? I think I see where it is happening in the code. AFAICT, the wrapping of long header lines by indentation (as your mailer seems to do) is RFC conformant, so I think it is majordomo who needs the fix. The only possible bug I could see is that your mailer implements the indentation incorrectly (tabs vs. spaces, incorrect level of indentation etc.). Markus -- Markus Schaber | Logical TrackingTracing International AG Dipl. Inf. | Software Development GIS Fight against software patents in Europe! www.ffii.org www.nosoftwarepatents.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [HACKERS] Truncation of email subject lines
Hi, Bruce, Markus Schaber wrote: Should I try hacking my mail reader to prevent this? I think I see where it is happening in the code. AFAICT, the wrapping of long header lines by indentation (as your mailer seems to do) is RFC conformant, so I think it is majordomo who needs the fix. The only possible bug I could see is that your mailer implements the indentation incorrectly (tabs vs. spaces, incorrect level of indentation etc.). I just re-read http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html and it seems that the first character of the continuation has to be a space or tab, so I assume that your mailer wors correctly. Btw, header lines have a limit of 998 characters, so, for longer subjects, wrapping them is a must. :-) HTH, Markus -- Markus Schaber | Logical TrackingTracing International AG Dipl. Inf. | Software Development GIS Fight against software patents in Europe! www.ffii.org www.nosoftwarepatents.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [HACKERS] Truncation of email subject lines
Markus Schaber wrote: Hi, Bruce, Bruce Momjian wrote: Should I try hacking my mail reader to prevent this? I think I see where it is happening in the code. AFAICT, the wrapping of long header lines by indentation (as your mailer seems to do) is RFC conformant, so I think it is majordomo who needs the fix. Yep. We were actually offered a patch on Majordomo's mailing list, a couple of days ago. It made a lot of sense to me -- it was kinda obvious that without it, multiline stuff would be truncated. What I'm not sure about is why it would apply only to Subject: and not, say, to Received: Marc would need to install it to see if it fixes things. (It may be smarter to install a test list somewhere else, replicate then problem, then apply to patch and prove that the problem no longer occurs; but I'm rather short on time to do it myself) -- Alvaro Herrerahttp://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
[HACKERS] Truncation of email subject lines
I have confirmed that my email client, elm-ME+, is wrapping long subject lines on output, e.g.: Subject: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: sslinfo contrib module - information about current SSL and because majordomo is stripping any secondary lines, the subjects are getting truncated. It took me a while to figure this out because my mail reader displays multi-line subjects just fine. When we started talking about the problems with multi-line subjects, I figured it wasn't a problem --- who would make a multi-line subject? I didn't realize mail readers would do that automatically. Should I try hacking my mail reader to prevent this? I think I see where it is happening in the code. -- Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnterpriseDBhttp://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
Re: [HACKERS] Truncation of email subject lines
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Should I try hacking my mail reader to prevent this? I think I see where it is happening in the code. I'd say it'd be better to hack MajorDomo to be RFC-compliant. :) -Doug ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
