pqm-submit weirdness...

Michael Ellerman michael at ellerman.id.au
Thu Mar 23 04:04:36 GMT 2006


On 3/23/06, James Henstridge <james.henstridge at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22/03/06, Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> > Robert Collins wrote:
> > > Now newlines cant be represented
> >
> > Beg pardon, but newlines can be represented as distinct from soft returns:
> >
> > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2646.txt
>
> That RFC deals with flowed text in the body of a message.  It doesn't
> seem to say anything about representing newlines in message headers
> (the problem in question is the generation of the "Subject" message
> header).

I don't know what the RFC says, but I've definitely seen subjects
containing newlines in the wild. So the pqm script should probably
handle them. Having said that it, the plugin should probably wrap
anyway.

cheers




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