Re: Majordomo drops multi-line Subject:

It most likely conforms strictly to <a
href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc822#page-21">Rfc 822</a> which is
the standard, and mostly canonical, and allows for CR and LF but not the
two together (CRLF), if I'm reading it correctly:

text        =  <any CHAR, including bare    ; => atoms, specials,
                     CR & bare LF, but NOT       ;  comments and
                     including CRLF>             ;  quoted-strings are
                                                 ;  NOT recognized.

optional-field =

                 /  "Message-ID"        ":"   msg-id
                 /  "Resent-Message-ID" ":"   msg-id
                 /  "In-Reply-To"       ":"  *(phrase / msg-id)
                 /  "References"        ":"  *(phrase / msg-id)
                 /  "Keywords"          ":"  #phrase
                 /  "Subject"           ":"  *text
                 /  "Comments"          ":"  *text
                 /  "Encrypted"         ":" 1#2word
                 /  extension-field              ; To be defined
                 /  user-defined-field           ; May be pre-empted



Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
>> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>
>>> I noticed that Majordomo drops the second and subsequent lines of a
>>> Subject: line in message before dispatching for some reason.  It has
>>> done this for some time; I noticed it some time ago in pgsql-es-ayuda
>>> but I thought it may be a bug in my MUA.  But I just saw it happened to
>>> a mail from Bruce as well.
>>>
>> Can you have multi-line subject lines?  I didn't think that was
>> possible.
>>
>
> Yes.  This is the header of a mail you sent to -patches:
>
> From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
> To: Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek.Kotala@Sun.COM>
> CC: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, pgsql-patches@postgresql.org
> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 09:05:29 -0400 (EDT)
> Subject: Re: [PATCHES] Allow commenting of variables in
>
>
> Note the Subject is truncated w.r.t. the mail you were responding, which
> had this:
>
> From: Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek.Kotala@Sun.COM>
> To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
> Cc: pgsql-patches@postgresql.org, bruce@momjian.us
> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:44:19 +0200
> Subject: Re: [PATCHES] Allow commenting of variables in postgresql.conf to -
>
> See your sent-mail folder, you'll see that the message you actually sent
> had something like this:
>
> Subject: Re: [PATCHES] Allow commenting of variables in
>     postgresql.conf to -
>
>
> What happened with the second line?  What I concluded has happened, from
> observations on the other list, Majordomo removed it.
>
>


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