288745 - Inappropiate newlines (\r\n) in long subjects

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Stijn Jonker]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317)

When sending an email with a long subject the subject is wrapped, although I
couldn't find an RFC describing whether this is good or bad, it's an annoying
side effect especially with services that use the subject to perform actions.

An example of this is when the subject is used to send a SMS or text message to
a mobile phone. Included with the bug an tcpdump capture can be found which
shows the smtp session and a txt representation thereof.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Write a email with a long subject
2. In sent items it looks ok, on SMTP level \r\n's are inserted.
3.



Expected Results:  
No line wraps in the subject.

Comment 1

[Stijn Jonker]

Attachment: TCPDump capture of SMTP session (Can be viewed in Ethereal and other sniffers)

Comment 2

[Stijn Jonker]

Attachment: Exported in TXT capture of SMTP session

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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