Re: Email issues unanswered - Mailing list pgsql-www

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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> - --On Monday, January 29, 2007 18:11:38 -0500 Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> 
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> > My long subject email going out looks like:
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> >     From bruce Fri Jan 26 21:00:37 2007
> >     Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Predicted lifespan of different PostgreSQL
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> Looks like something has add a carriage return at the end of PostgreSQL, which 
> breaks the RFC ... if it was all one line (as per the RFC quote that Andrew 

Yes, my emaler does that, but see below on the RFC issue.

> sent), it wouldn't have gone through (as per the valid long Subject that I just 
> sent to you) ...
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> You are talking about 'multi line' (against RFCs) vs 'long subjects that wrap' 
> (not against RFCs) ...

Right, I am talking about multi-line, and here is the RFC part Andrew
mentioned:
 2.2.3. Long Header Fields
  Each header field is logically a single line of characters comprising  the field name, the colon, and the field body.
For convenience  however, and to deal with the 998/78 character limitations per line,  the field body portion of a
headerfield can be split into a multiple  line representation; this is called "folding".  The general rule is
 
  that wherever this standard allows for folding white space (not  simply WSP characters), a CRLF may be inserted
beforeany WSP.  For  example, the header field:
 
          Subject: This is a test
  can be represented as:
          Subject: This           is a test
  Note: Though structured field bodies are defined in such a way that  folding can take place between many of the
lexicaltokens (and even  within some of the lexical tokens), folding SHOULD be limited to  placing the CRLF at
higher-levelsyntactic breaks.  For instance, if  a field body is defined as comma-separated values, it is recommended
thatfolding occur after the comma separating the structured items in  preference to other places where the field could
befolded, even if  it is allowed elsewhere.
 
  The process of moving from this folded multiple-line representation  of a header field to its single line
representationis called  "unfolding". Unfolding is accomplished by simply removing any CRLF  that is immediately
followedby WSP.  Each header field should be  treated in its unfolded form for further syntactic and semantic
evaluation.

It seems clear here that my emailer is fine and following the RFC.

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