Re: Sylpheed and mail client
On Thu, 26 Dec 2002 23:16:27 +0000
Carlos Sousa <csousa@tvtel.pt> wrote:
> Concerning the issue of Sylpheed not showing debian-user-digest
> messages in their entirety, in some cases...
>
> On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 14:23:31 +0000 Carlos Sousa wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 10:26:46 +0000 Colin Watson wrote:
> > > Somebody who knows the details should file a bug on
> > > lists.debian.org, then.
> (...)
> > If anybody could send me, as an attachment, an example digest where
> > this happens (Marc Shapiro, anyone?) I'll be happy to review the
> > case, post my conclusions here and eventually file the bug.
((snipped))
> An exact match of the entire candidate line is not required; it is
> sufficient that the boundary appear in its entirety following the
> CRLF.
>
> Hope this homegrown bit of analysis makes it clear that the choice
> of the boundary delimiter on the part of the list manager software
> is indeed very poor, in that it is easy for any user to inadvertently
> cause RFC-compliant email clients to fail the display of an entire
> mail message. As a side note, out of the 5 digests I got for the
> purpose of this analysis, 2 of them had this problem, so it's
> happening a lot.
>
> Do we agree that a bug should be filed, then, against
> lists.debian.org?
>
> --
> Carlos Sousa
I vote yes. I don't currently get the digest but in the future I
probably will.
--
Shawn Lamson
shawn.lamson@verizon.net
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
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