[17534] in Athena Bugs
Re: exmh bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Sat Feb 12 01:13:54 2000
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 01:13:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
To: Kev <klmitch@mit.edu>
cc: bug-sipb@mit.edu, bugs@mit.edu
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[cc'd to bugs because this is rooted in a nmh problem]
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Kev wrote:
> I received an email with the reply-to set to a very long email address.
> When I hit 'r', exmh formated the reply with that single email address
> broken across two lines, rendering it invalid.
Testing revelas that this seems to be an underlying [n]mh
problem. I sent a message to myself, and played with it.
Repl splits the address across lines:
athena% show last | grep ^From
From: really-long-email-address-that-extends-for-a-long-long-long-long-distance@MIT.EDU
[..repl, save but don't send the draft..]
athena% ggrep -C1 ^To `mhpath +drafts last`
To: really-long-email-address-that-extends-for-a-long-long-long-long-dis
tance@MIT.EDU
A brief look around suggests that there's no way to fix this
above the source-code level. You can use "repl -width 300", or
remove the %(void(width)) from /usr/athena/etc/replcomps , but
both of these have the disadvantage that they won't properly
line-wrap instances where there are multiple addresses on the
To: or Cc: line.
The relevant part of the nmh source seems to start at line 730
of /mit/source-8.3/third/nmh/sbr/fmt_scan.c:
/* try to break at a comma; failing that, break at a
* space, failing that, just split the line.
*/
Maybe it would be reasonable to change this to not split in the
middle of lines.
-Jacob
