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Issue 504273

classification
line continuation in header
Type: Severity: normal
Components: Mail interface Versions:
process
Status: closed accepted
:
: richard : pohly, richard
Priority: normal :

Created on 2002-01-16 09:08 by pohly, last changed 2004-02-05 23:53 by richard.

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msg161 Author: [hidden] (pohly) Date: 2002-01-16 09:08
A line continuation in the header of an email
seems to be valid, e.g.:

Subject: [issue] hallo [statu
\ts=resolved]

This breaks the mail gateway. See patch
for a solution.
msg162 Author: [hidden] (richard) Date: 2002-01-16 12:09
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I'm really not comfortable putting this code into roundup 
until we know what's going to happen in the Python core.
msg163 Author: [hidden] (pohly) Date: 2002-01-16 13:58
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"going to happen in the Python core" as in
"there might be a fix for it in the Python core"
or as "this change might break Python"?

I don't think that we will see the former,
as the behaviour isn't defined (so it isn't
really a bug).

msg164 Author: [hidden] (richard) Date: 2002-01-21 22:17
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As discussed on the roundup-devel mailing list, there's not
a lot we can do here. The python core code for rfc822 is
broken, and the mailer that sent the above Subject line is
doubly broken (splitting on a word and not whitespace).
Short of putting in horrid special-case tests in the roundup
code, I don't think we can do much here...
msg165 Author: [hidden] (richard) Date: 2004-02-05 23:53
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We need to determine whether the new email module addresses 
this issue.
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