Mutt eating the tab character in headers

2012-05-25 Thread Aaron Toponce
I have an easter egg, if you will, in the header of my mail. I have two headers that I am adding: Crypto-Challenge and Crypto-Hint. It's all for fun and games. However, in my muttrc(5), I am wrapping each line (It's rather lengthy otherwise) and preceding the newline with a tab character. It

Re: Mutt eating the tab character in headers

2012-05-25 Thread Chris Burdess
Aaron Toponce wrote: I have an easter egg, if you will, in the header of my mail. I have two headers that I am adding: Crypto-Challenge and Crypto-Hint. It's all for fun and games. However, in my muttrc(5), I am wrapping each line (It's rather lengthy otherwise) and preceding the newline

Re: Mutt eating the tab character in headers

2012-05-25 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 03:24:38PM +0100, Chris Burdess wrote: I would think that it doesn't actually matter whether mutt does this or not, since any intervening MTAs are free to do this as they want. As long as the result is valid RFC822, header whitespace may be changed or whatever. Only the

Re: Mutt eating the tab character in headers

2012-05-25 Thread Chris Burdess
Aaron Toponce wrote: On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 03:24:38PM +0100, Chris Burdess wrote: I would think that it doesn't actually matter whether mutt does this or not, since any intervening MTAs are free to do this as they want. As long as the result is valid RFC822, header whitespace may be

Re: Mutt eating the tab character in headers

2012-05-25 Thread Derek Martin
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 09:05:34AM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 03:24:38PM +0100, Chris Burdess wrote: I would think that it doesn't actually matter whether mutt does this or not, since any intervening MTAs are free to do this as they want. As long as the result is

Re: Mutt eating the tab character in headers

2012-05-25 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:50:07AM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: There's a lot to wade through, but the answer is here: http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/2995 It turns out this is kind of hard to get exactly right. Paying closer attention to some other headers, it appears that some software

Re: Mutt eating the tab character in headers [some really long text I added upon message creation to see how the wrapping is handled]

2012-05-25 Thread Derek Martin
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:44:02AM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:50:07AM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: There's a lot to wade through, but the answer is here: http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/2995 It turns out this is kind of hard to get exactly right. Paying