432493 - Confirmation emails are word-wrapped too often

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Public Pages, defect)

Description

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

We use the PHPMailer library to send mails. It works well so far, but there are issues around its quoted printable encoding:

Japanese (UTF-8) subject lines are broken (bug 412409).

Also, in the message body there seem to be too many "hard" line breaks. While the library correctly breaks after 76 characters, it should use a "=" character to denote a soft line break (not to be displayed by the MUA), unless the message body string actually has an intentional line break in that place.

Both problems make our emails slightly unappealing to users, the former for Japanese ones only, the latter to all.

Comment 1

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

By the way, I updated phpmailer localy to its stable v2.0.0, but the two bugs persist.

Comment 2

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

Actually, the word wrap problem came from the email component, which contained a "wordwrap = 50" (characters) option for no good reason. I commented it out (r12868), and the second issue is fixed now, reducing this to the utf-8 issue of bug 412409 only, so marking this fixed.