Re: utf-8 subject

On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Steve Hubert wrote:

} Thanks. That is an example of an encoded subject that breaks the rules because
} it is too long. Pine strictly enforces the line length limit.

Aaaah...thanks for the explanation! Turns out I see them a lot from 
flickr.com automated e.mails as well, and they can have very long 
subjects. 

} However, it turns out lots of software ignores the line length limit 
} and so alpine (http://www.washington.edu/alpine/), the follow-on to 
} pine, also ignores the length limit now and it will decode subjects 
} like that as you expect (though arguably incorrectly). You can't get 
} pine to decode the subject but alpine is a replacement for pine that 
} will do the decoding and does have many other improvements, as well.

I think I've posted on this list about my opinions about moving to 
Alpine, and I mean 100% no offense, but I am still a ways off from 
migrating to a 1.0 program. E.mail is my most important....umm..not sure 
what to call it, but what I mean is that I like programs that access my 
mail to be as stable as can be. I've been using Pine since 3.83 IIRC, and 
it has matured into a very rock solid solution for me. As a developer 
myself, I know and understand the need to not be maintaining legacy 
applications - only so much time in the day, etc. 

This is a round-about way of asking if you could point me in the 
direction of where to look in the Pine source code so that I could make 
Pine ignore line length for subjects. I've lived with that "limit" for 
years, so it is not a big deal if you're unable to tell me, but as a good 
exercise [for me], it would be cool to tackle that issue.

Also, unrelated - I notice a lot of Alpine posts here - is there a 
separate list for Alpine, or are topics about both MUAs 
allowed/encouraged here?

Thanks for the info and any pointers you can provide!

/vjl/

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