Re: improper Newsgroups: header wrapping and encoding

On 5/7/24 20:25, Duncan wrote:

> Scott Doty posted on Tue, 7 May 2024 07:58:10 -0700 as excerpted:
>
>> Hello:
>>
>> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pan/-/issues/185
>>
>> tl;dr: long Newsgroups: header fields are wrapped and encoded
>> incorrectly.
>>
>> This has been a problem for a long time now.  Please advise.
>>
>> Using commit cf43eb8929dc70e3fa89fead6bc948105019311a with a fresh
>> build.
> Not sure if the encoding throws another wrench into things but I do know
> that pan hands off the headers to ... looking it up again via ldd to see
> what libs pan's loading... the gmime library... to do the header-
> processing including header-folding, and that certain versions of gmime
> were known to be buggy in this regard and do MIME-incompliant header
> folding.
[...]
> $ equery list -op gmime
>   * Searching for gmime ...
> [-P-] [  ] dev-libs/gmime-2.6.23-r2:2.6
> [IP-] [  ] dev-libs/gmime-3.2.14:3.0
>
[...]
> So you'll probably want gmime 3.2.13 from 2022 at least, if not 3.2.14,
> introduced on Gentoo at least back in Sept (2023) and stabilized in April
> (this year 2024).
>
> If you have gmime 3.2.14 (and probably with 3.2.13 as I believe it was
> after the known header-wrapping issues) the gmime header-wrapping bugs I
> had seen should be fixed, as I'm guessing they were on 3.2.12 given the
> timeline above. If you're upgraded beyond 3.2.12 then, the problem
> probably /is/ the encoding, which as I said throws another wrench into
> things that I'm not familiar with -- it could be pan itself or another
> library responsible for that.
>
Thank you, Duncan!

I'm running Linux Mint 21.3, which is using gmime 3.2.7.  I will track 
down the latest version and link with that.

Thank you so much for the reply!

  -Scott



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