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27.1; sendmail does not wrap overlong lines

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Message #33 received at 53412 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Francesco Potortì <pot <at> gnu.org>, 53412 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#53412: wrappin text lines is not enough, headers shoould be
 split too
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2022 18:27:44 +0100

On Mär 07 2022, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Francesco Potortì <pot <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>>>> If there is an overlong header, other headers which are utf-8
>>>> escaped are not sent correctly, and the recipient sees something
>>>> like this:
>>>>
>>>> Subject: test =?utf-8?Q?=C3=A0?= b c
>>>>  =?utf-8?Q?=C3=AC?=
>>>
>>>That looks correct to me?
>>
>> No, if that's what the recipent sees in their inbox.  I don't know
>> why, but mail sent by Emacs with an overlong header (whichever header)
>> ends up with recipients seeing that string in their MUA.
>
> They see literally that displayed?  Then it sounds like the mail you're
> sending out has been double-rfc2047-encoded.

I would think this happens because of the call to mml-to-mime in the
mail-send-hook he uses.

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