On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 11:31:47PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 16:13 +0100, Michael Haardt wrote: > > If you view the source, everything should be shown unmodified, > > although I have seen the client evolution showing a "fixed up" message > > when looking at the source without saying a word about it. > > Evolution is broken. The formatting of the header may be _syntactically_ > irrelevant, but that is no excuse for corrupting it as Evolution does.
We are talking about two different things here. I saw how Evolution showed a "fixed-up" message *source*, pretending the MIME structure of a message was correct, although it was not. I am not talking about the regular display of mails. > The fix for idiocy such as that displayed at > http://david.woodhou.se/evo-ate-my-spam-report.jpeg is not to reformat > the headers, but to fix the mail client so that it doesn't mangle them. If the report had been a single header line with CR-LF-tab folding, Evolution does the correct thing here. To me, the application (I guess SA here) that assumes folding would be anything but a way to transport long lines is broken. If arbitrary data should be transported, MIME does the job. "Received:" headers with tabs look just as ugly as the report above, and most likely for the same reason: Ignorance of folding semantics. Michael -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-dev Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ##
