Re: Violation maximum line length (RFC 2822) for forwared mails

On Thursday, 4 March 2021 13:22:47 GMT [email protected] wrote:
> On Thursday, March 04, 2021 03:43:06 AM Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> >  KMail does not properly (if at all) fold long header fields.
> 
> From the peanut gallery: I find the use of the word "fold" (especially in
> the Unix / Linux world) somewhat ambiguous.
> 
> Some people / contexts seem to mean the breaking of a line into shorter
> lines by the addition of line ends (trying to remember the right word) --
> sort of a permanent change to the text.

That's breaking, not folding.

> Other people / contexts seem to mean the ability of some software (typically
> some text editors / word processors) to hide portions of the text, leaving
> (typically) only one leading line and some kind of marker (typically in the
> left margin) that can be clicked to reveal the text that was hidden. 
> (Leaving a different marker than can be used to re-hide the text.)

That's neither breaking nor folding: just showing that the line is longer than 
what you're seeing.

> Still other people may mean simply the ability (of some software) to wrap a
> long line that would normally stream off to the right so that it appears as
> multiple lines in the "normal" view (to the right of the screen), with no
> need to horizontally scroll (to the left) to view the remainder of the
> line.

That's folding.

> Which do you consider the proper behavior re headers in kmail?

If the RFC's usage differs, it's not standard English.

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Regards,
Peter.