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"Dan Kohn" <dan(_at_)dankohn(_dot_)com> writes:
"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)."
Somebody has not been wrapping his lines at sensible places :-(.
Anyway, I disagree. Users who write long headers may carefully fold them
to give best legibility. User agents SHOULD NOT throw away that
information wantonly (OK, if the lines are longer than 78/whatever then
refolding might be in order).
Here is an example header produced by Spamassassin:
X-Spam-Report: Detailed Report
SPAM: -------------------- Start SpamAssassin results ----------------------
SPAM: This mail is probably spam. The original message has been altered
SPAM: so you can recognise or block similar unwanted mail in future.
SPAM: See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details.
SPAM:
SPAM: Content analysis details: (8.00 hits, 5 required)
SPAM: SUBJ_HAS_SPACES (2.6 points) Subject contains lots of white space
SPAM: NO_REAL_NAME (1.3 points) From: does not include a real name
SPAM: FORGED_RCVD_FOUND (0.8 points) Possibly-forged 'Received:' header found
SPAM: SPAM_PHRASE_05_08 (1.6 points) BODY: Spam phrases score is 05 to 08
(medium)
SPAM: [score: 5]
SPAM: SUBJ_HAS_UNIQ_ID (1.1 points) Subject contains a unique ID
SPAM: MSG_ID_ADDED_BY_MTA_2 (0.1 points) 'Message-Id' was added by a relay (2)
SPAM: MISSING_MIMEOLE (0.5 points) Message has X-MSMail-Priority, but no
X-MimeOLE
SPAM:
SPAM: -------------------- End of SpamAssassin results ---
Try refolding that, and it becomes unreadable.
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