Bug#849765: [Reportbug-maint] Bug#849765: reportbug: produces invalid mails when there are long lines

2017-09-07 Thread Nis Martensen
control: tags -1 patch On 30 Dec 2016 Adam Borowski wrote: > RFC 821: > # The maximum total length of a text line including the is 1000 > # characters (but not counting the leading dot duplicated for transparency). > > Some MTAs are said to have a bit shorter limits, such as 990 bytes. Here is

Bug#849765: reportbug: produces invalid mails when there are long lines

2017-07-28 Thread Paul Slootman
I was bitten by the same problem while reporting a bug on mutt, there the problem was the C compiler settings listed (I wonder why including those is useful, those aren't specific to my environment?) It really sucked that after taking 15 minutes to craft a good bug report that due to this silly pr

Bug#849765: [Reportbug-maint] Bug#849765: reportbug: produces invalid mails when there are long lines

2016-12-30 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 01:48:59PM -0500, Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 1:41 PM, Adam Borowski wrote: > > If the bug report contains an overlong line -- for example, mutt's bug > > script includes its configure options, 1017 characters long -- reportbug > > will send that unescaped.

Bug#849765: [Reportbug-maint] Bug#849765: reportbug: produces invalid mails when there are long lines

2016-12-30 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 1:41 PM, Adam Borowski wrote: > If the bug report contains an overlong line -- for example, mutt's bug > script includes its configure options, 1017 characters long -- reportbug > will send that unescaped. would you be able to retrieve the saved version of the report (ther

Bug#849765: reportbug: produces invalid mails when there are long lines

2016-12-30 Thread Adam Borowski
Package: reportbug Version: 7.1.1 Severity: normal Hi! If the bug report contains an overlong line -- for example, mutt's bug script includes its configure options, 1017 characters long -- reportbug will send that unescaped. The mail will then be rejected by certain MTAs, such as exim in Debian's