Re: Another mailing list bug

On Mar 24, 2009, at 11:14 AM, Hyrum K. Wright wrote:

> Speaking of mail list header brokenness, any word on a fix for the
> "Tigris breaks the Content-Type header" that was reported here a few
> weeks ago?

I think you refer to this report (of March 10)?

> it munges the Content-Type headers of messages in transit. That's a
> Bad Thing.

> (In this specific instance, my mailer sends the following header:
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes
>
> but what comes through the mailing list is:
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

I think the situation is more complex than you suggest. We are not
committed to passing arbitrarily any messages through unmodified, and
some modifications require corresponding header changes, including
content-type.

For the specific case you cite, we have an open issue to support
format=flowed, but it does not have any scheduled fix date at this time.

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