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01/11/2006, 01h05

Per Hedeland wrote:

>>So there is nothing wrong with your header as far as I can see.
>
>
> I would agree - but does the software doing the folding really "know"
> that? Unless it's the one inserting the header (i.e. it is actually
> folded to start with), this seems unlikely, in which case the folding
> sofware is broken.

The OP quoted a correctly folded header, so apearently the software
that has been used for that knew how to do it.

And it's not important wether the header was folded later or right
from the beginning.
It doesn't matter which software did the folding (and there will often
not be an easy way to discover who did it) as long as the result
conforms to the (draft) standard. Even if a 'later' program does some
extra folding (or unfolding and a different folding for that matter)
as long as the result is correct I don't see any problem.

If another program has trouble interpreting a correctly folded header
and recontructing the encoded key from the header, then _that_ program
is broken.

>
> Anyway, sendmail doesn't fold headers (unless they would exceed the SMTP
> line length limit of ~ 1000 chars) AFAIK - in particular not headers
> that it doesn't even "process", and DomainKey-Signature would definitely
> be in that category.
>
> --Per Hedeland
> per@hedeland.org

--
Kees Theunissen.

01/11/2006, 01h05	#4
Kees Theunissen Messages: n/a Hébergeur:	Re: Formatting of mail headers Per Hedeland wrote: >>So there is nothing wrong with your header as far as I can see. > > > I would agree - but does the software doing the folding really "know" > that? Unless it's the one inserting the header (i.e. it is actually > folded to start with), this seems unlikely, in which case the folding > sofware is broken. The OP quoted a correctly folded header, so apearently the software that has been used for that knew how to do it. And it's not important wether the header was folded later or right from the beginning. It doesn't matter which software did the folding (and there will often not be an easy way to discover who did it) as long as the result conforms to the (draft) standard. Even if a 'later' program does some extra folding (or unfolding and a different folding for that matter) as long as the result is correct I don't see any problem. If another program has trouble interpreting a correctly folded header and recontructing the encoded key from the header, then _that_ program is broken. > > Anyway, sendmail doesn't fold headers (unless they would exceed the SMTP > line length limit of ~ 1000 chars) AFAIK - in particular not headers > that it doesn't even "process", and DomainKey-Signature would definitely > be in that category. > > --Per Hedeland > per@hedeland.org -- Kees Theunissen.