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RE: Problems with RFC 2047

2003-03-09 14:01:39

Jacob Palme <jpalme(_at_)dsv(_dot_)su(_dot_)se> wrote:

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The cause of the problems seems to be that RFC2047 makes
the subject much longer,

I believe the issue is not a RFC 2047 one, but an issue of semantic confusion 
about line breaks in Subject headers.

Specifically, I would suggest to Jacob that he write a few paragraph long 
informational RFC of MUA implementation advice with the following paragraph:

"Mail User Agents SHOULD unfold headers that are displayed to the end-user 
(such as Subject, To, and Cc), since line breaks in headers do not have 
semantic content (unlike in message bodies, where they often denote paragraph 
or list breaks)."

See these messages:

http://www.imc.org/ietf-822/mail-archive/msg02572.html
http://www.imc.org/ietf-822/mail-archive/msg02573.html
http://www.imc.org/ietf-822/mail-archive/msg02574.html

          - dan
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