Re: Email issues unanswered

Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 05:46:34PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > > First, I would a fix for the bug that multi-line subjects are truncated
> > > to their first line.
> >
> > Which is correct according to the RFCs
>
> Well, that depends on what you mean by "multi-line". If what you
> mean is "has a CRLF embedded in it to begin with", then I think
> you're correct, because RFC 2822 section 2.2.3 says
>
> Each header field is logically a single line of characters
> comprising the field name, the colon, and the field body.
>
> _But_ if you mean "too long for the standard 78 characters per line",
> though, you're mistaken. Please see RFC 2822 section 2.2.3 for more.

My long subject email going out looks like:

From bruce Fri Jan 26 21:00:37 2007
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Predicted lifespan of different PostgreSQL
branches
In-Reply-To: <1169889147(dot)3443(dot)10(dot)camel(at)laptop(dot)gunduz(dot)org>
To: Devrim GUNDUZ <devrim(at)CommandPrompt(dot)com>
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 10:05:33 -0500 (EST)
cc: Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Bill Moran <wmoran(at)collaborativefusion(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL123]
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Length: 797

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