Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Stephan Krinetzki writes:
We have been experiencing the following problem lately: When a user sends a mail with an unusually long subject to a mailing list, this subject is shortened. Is this being observed by all subscribers? Especially subscribers with various different mail clients? Do you observe this when you look at the "original message"? (Different clients describe this function in different ways, but most mail clients allow you to look at all of the header and body text exactly as sent, with no formatting).
Yes, it doesn't matter which cleint they are using. The cutted subject was reported multiple times.
Here are the two examples: Original subject: "[SAV-LINUX] Notice from Sophos Anti-Virus on lx1bcms-storage.physik.rwth-aachen.de" (82 characters long) Subject in Mailman: "[edv-support][SAV-LINUX] Notice from Sophos Anti-Virus on" (57 characters long) By design, Mailman does not truncate the subject, it folds it to multiple lines to conform to Internet mail standards which state that lines should be no longer than 78 characters. So, including adding the "edv-support" tag, a stock Mailman installation should be changing: Subject: [SAV-LINUX] Notice from Sophos Anti-Virus on lx1bcms-storage.physik.rwth-aachen.de" (all one line) to (two lines, split after "on" with the space starting the second line[1]: Subject: [edv-support] [SAV-LINUX] Notice from Sophos Anti-Virus on lx1bcms-storage.physik.rwth-aachen.de" A mail client that conforms to Internet mail standards might either display it exactly that way, or it might unfold it to a single line, or it might unfold it, then refold it to match the user's display width. Of course if you look at the original text and there is no second line, that's a Mailman bug.
And here we are: There is no second line! The subject header only contains the displayed value, no new line or other things. But the mailman subject line is intact. Only the regular Subject: is truncated.
So, i have to file a bug report, right?