GNU bug report logs - #38200
26.2; sendmail.el needlessly munging headers by inserting backslashes

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ed Sabol <esabol <at> milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov>

Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 22:01:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Found in version 26.2

Fixed in version 27.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at 38200 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka <at> jpl.org>
Cc: Ed Sabol <esabol <at> milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov>, 38200 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38200: 26.2; sendmail.el needlessly munging headers by
 inserting backslashes
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 09:10:52 +0100

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka <at> jpl.org> writes:

> Done in master.  Thanks.  Ed, a patch for Emacs 26.2 is attached.

[...]

> -(defun rfc2047-quote-special-characters-in-quoted-strings (&optional
> -							   encodable-regexp)
> -  "Quote special characters with `\\'s in quoted strings.
> -Quoting will not be done in a quoted string if it contains characters
> -matching ENCODABLE-REGEXP or it is within parentheses."

I'm not sure removing the function is the right thing to do -- it may be
used by third-party code.  So we should just obsolete it and then remove
it in (say) Emacs 29.

-- 
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