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Fun fact: The message is misformatted in the archive beacause the mail client bungled the MIME type (just "text/plain" which means "preformatted, don't reflow
by zurn 12y ago
Fun fact:
The message is misformatted in the archive beacause the mail client bungled the MIME type (just "text/plain" which means "preformatted, don't reflow lines", instead of "text/plain; format=flowed" which would have been correct here).
Apple's Mail had this bug at some point as well.
edit: Seems there's more to it - the format=flowed part was also, until a 2010 release of MailMan, stripped out by the mailing list sw even if the original mail had it correctly. And then the web archiving part (Pipermail) dutifully follows the specs. Can't easily tell if this is a case of outdated MailMan installation or mail client bug. See this 2006-vintage bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/266341 https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/266341
- _wmd 12y agoThe text/plain MIME type predates the specification of format=flowed by at least 7 years.
- deleted 12y ago[deleted]
- JoshTriplett 12y agoAvoiding format=flowed is a feature on development mailing lists; it mangles code and patches.