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24.5; message-mode sends arbitrarily long headers

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From: David Bremner <david <at> tethera.net>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.5; message-mode sends arbitrarily long headers
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2015 21:41:07 -0300

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
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Message #8 received at 21608 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: David Bremner <david <at> tethera.net>
Cc: 21608 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21608: 24.5; message-mode sends arbitrarily long headers
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 22:37:23 +0100

David Bremner <david <at> tethera.net> writes:

> 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.

How odd.  I can't find any code that either checks or folds too-long
headers when sending mail.  (There's some when sending news.)  Odd that
nobody has complained about this before...

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

Message #11 received at 21608 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: David Bremner <david <at> tethera.net>
Cc: 21608 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21608: 24.5; message-mode sends arbitrarily long headers
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 22:53:15 +0100

This should now be fixed on the Emacs master, as the very long Foo:
header in this mail should demonstrate, I hope.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

Message #18 received at 21608 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: David Bremner <david <at> tethera.net>, 21608 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21608: 24.5; message-mode sends arbitrarily long headers
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 12:00:34 +0100

On Jan 26 2017, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> wrote:

> This should now be fixed on the Emacs master, as the very long Foo:
> header in this mail should demonstrate, I hope.

The Foo: header has just 896 characters, and appears to have been
truncated (the last word is "arbitraril").

Andreas.

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Message #21 received at 21608 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: David Bremner <david <at> tethera.net>, 21608 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21608: 24.5; message-mode sends arbitrarily long headers
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 12:35:38 +0100

Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org> writes:

> On Jan 26 2017, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> wrote:
>
>> This should now be fixed on the Emacs master, as the very long Foo:
>> header in this mail should demonstrate, I hope.
>
> The Foo: header has just 896 characters, and appears to have been
> truncated (the last word is "arbitraril").

If you look at the message in the bug tracker, the Foo header starts with

Foo: Re: bug#21608: 24.5; message-mode sends arbitrarily long headersRe:
 bug#21608: 24.5; message-mode sends arbitrarily long headersRe: bug#21608:
 24.5; message-mode sends arbitrarily long headersRe: bug#21608: 24.5;
 message-mode sends arbitrarily long headersRe: bug#21608: 24.5;

and runs for about 3K.  So if you got a shorter header, I think that
means that something on your side truncated the header.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

Message #24 received at 21608 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: David Bremner <david <at> tethera.net>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: 21608 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21608: 24.5; message-mode sends arbitrarily long headers
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 07:49:48 -0400

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org> writes:
>
>> On Jan 26 2017, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> wrote:
>>
>>> This should now be fixed on the Emacs master, as the very long Foo:
>>> header in this mail should demonstrate, I hope.
>>
>> The Foo: header has just 896 characters, and appears to have been
>> truncated (the last word is "arbitraril").
>
> If you look at the message in the bug tracker, the Foo header starts with
>
> Foo: Re: bug#21608: 24.5; message-mode sends arbitrarily long headersRe:
>  bug#21608: 24.5; message-mode sends arbitrarily long headersRe: bug#21608:
>  24.5; message-mode sends arbitrarily long headersRe: bug#21608: 24.5;
>  message-mode sends arbitrarily long headersRe: bug#21608: 24.5;
>

FWIW, I can confirm receipt of the long header here.

d

Message #27 received at 21608 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: David Bremner <david <at> tethera.net>, 21608 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21608: 24.5; message-mode sends arbitrarily long headers
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 14:04:38 +0100

On Jan 27 2017, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> wrote:

> If you look at the message in the bug tracker, the Foo header starts with
>
> Foo: Re: bug#21608: 24.5; message-mode sends arbitrarily long headersRe:
>  bug#21608: 24.5; message-mode sends arbitrarily long headersRe: bug#21608:
>  24.5; message-mode sends arbitrarily long headersRe: bug#21608: 24.5;
>  message-mode sends arbitrarily long headersRe: bug#21608: 24.5;
>
> and runs for about 3K.  So if you got a shorter header, I think that
> means that something on your side truncated the header.

Then it must have been broken by gmane.

Andreas.

-- 
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GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756  01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5
"And now for something completely different."

Message #30 received at 21608 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: David Bremner <david <at> tethera.net>, 21608 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21608: 24.5; message-mode sends arbitrarily long headers
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 14:07:22 +0100

Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org> writes:

> Then it must have been broken by gmane.

Oh, yeah, NNTP headers can't be longer than 1K.  So Gmane truncates
them.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

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