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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: 21608@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21608: 24.5; message-mode sends arbitrarily long headers
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2015 21:41:07 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wpv44wd8.fsf@zancas.localnet> (raw)


1) run emacs -Q
2) M-x message-mail
3) insert a long header; "X-Stupid: " followed by the first 900 words in /usr/share/dict/words.
4) C-c C-c
5) select 'transport'

Now is the tricky part. You need to observe what actually hits the mail
transport. In my case I use a nullmailer transport with the ability to
log the complete message. At least for me, the header is unwrapped. This
causes messages to rejected by MTAs with strict adherence to RFC5322
section 2.1.1 which states a 998 character absolute limit on line length.

One could argue that this is user error/perversity, but it arrises
rather easily with References headers, and these are hidden by default,
so the user has no real clue there is a problem.


In GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.16.6)
 of 2015-09-19 on trouble, modified by Debian
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11702000
System Description:	Debian GNU/Linux testing (stretch)

Configured using:
 `configure --build x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr
 --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib
 --localstatedir=/var/lib --infodir=/usr/share/info
 --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-pop=yes
 --enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs24:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/24.5/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/24.5/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp
 --build x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --sharedstatedir=/var/lib
 --libexecdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var/lib
 --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-pop=yes
 --enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs24:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/24.5/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/24.5/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp
 --with-x=yes --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-toolkit-scroll-bars
 'CFLAGS=-g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat
 -Werror=format-security -Wall' CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
 LDFLAGS=-Wl,-z,relro'

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: en_CA.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  electric-indent-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  buffer-read-only: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent messages:
Mark set
Replaced 896 occurrences
scroll-down-command: Beginning of buffer
Mark set
Sending...
Mark set [2 times]
Sending via mail...
Setting `send-mail-function' temporarily since "emacs -q" would overwrite customizations
Sending...done
Making completion list...

Load-path shadows:
None found.

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custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process
dbusbind gfilenotify dynamic-setting system-font-setting
font-render-setting move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs)

Memory information:
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 (symbols 48 19411 0)
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             reply	other threads:[~2015-10-03  0:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-03  0:41 David Bremner [this message]
2017-01-26 21:37 ` bug#21608: 24.5; message-mode sends arbitrarily long headers Lars Ingebrigtsen
2017-01-26 21:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2017-01-27 11:00   ` Andreas Schwab
2017-01-27 11:35     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2017-01-27 11:49       ` David Bremner
2017-01-27 13:04       ` Andreas Schwab
2017-01-27 13:07         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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