[Evolution] Bug#789616: evolution-plugins: Face header too long

[Arthur de Jong]

On Mon, 2015-06-22 at 19:55 +0200, Arthur de Jong wrote:
> When using the face plugin to configuring an image, a Face header is
> added to outgoing email. For common sizes of images this results in
> lines that are too long.
> 
> RFC 2822 section 2.1.1 specifies the maximum line length to be 998.

It seems that Evolution correctly creates the header with wrapped
headers as:

  Face:<crlf>
  <tab>... 997 more characters ...<crlf>
  <tab>...

However, some mail handling software (at least mailman and apparently
also the Debian list software) seems to rewrite the header resulting in
the following:

  Face:<space>... 997 more characters ...<crlf>
  <space>...

which means the first line ends up as 1003 characters. While this
technically may be a bug in that software it is probably much easier to
work around this in evolution than it is to fix all the deployed mail
systems out there.

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-- arthur - adejong at debian.org - http://people.debian.org/~adejong --
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