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Re: Problem with MIME and line length in Subject headers

2002-11-11 06:07:39

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It gets by my mail program converted to:
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That's German ;)

Question 1: Is this correct behaviour of a standards-compliant mailer?

The subject field is unstructured, which means that it contains nonwhitespace and folding whitespace. By my reading of 2822, a MUA should therefore treat all sequences of white space as equivalent to a single ASCII 32.

Question 2: If the answer to question 1 is "yes", then is there something wrong with the standards? Should the next edition of MIME include something for headers similar to "=" at the end of the line in Quoted-Printable lines to indicate soft linebreaks?

A standard that is widely either misunderstood or incorrectly implemented certainly has a problem. IMHO, in this case a textual clarification is the best way to deal with it.

--Arnt