Bug/Issue: References header doesn't wrap in emacs package

David Bremner david at tethera.net
Tue Jun 7 03:28:40 PDT 2016


Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy at olin.edu> writes:


> I'm not sure whether fixing it in emacs is right.  The command 'notmuch
> reply' is itself (with the sexp or json formats) generating the too-long
> References: header.  Shouldn't it generate an RFC-compliant message?
>
> Or should the json/sexp formats remain agnostic about line length,
> because wrapping doesn't make sense with key/value pairs?  In that case,
> I agree that message-mode should fix any long lines.

For me the main issue is that the references header is editable by the
user before sending. So some input sanitization is needed at the sending
stage.

d


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