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Re: Problem with MIME and line length in Subject headers

2002-11-12 04:08:46

At 17:34 -0500 02-11-11, Keith Moore wrote:
I think it would be reasonable for a displaying user agent to
re-wrap any continued header field that contained encoded-words.

Should this be added, in future versions of either RFC 2048 or
RFC 2822, if they ever get revised? Since obviously there are
existing mailers which do not do this.

I think it is very reasonable to assume that a Subject cannot
contain any line breaks, and thus that any line breaks in
Subject are removed, and that there should be not more than
a single space where the line break occurred.
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