Re: HEAD: two envelope header problems (maybe gmime related)

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 14:20, Pawel Salek wrote:
> On 08/07/2004 01:37:40 PM, Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I discovered two envelope header problems, which may actually be  
> > gmime
> > 
> > 2.1.7 features/bugs [therefore the cc to Jeff] as they are not  
> > present
> > in
> > balsa 2.0:
> > 
> >  (1) Apparently tabs in some (all?) headers are not replaced by  
> > spaces   which displays ulgy in balsa (see shot below). I'm not sure  
> > if this  should  be done in gmime or in balsa itself, but IMHO gmime  
> > would be the  better  place as the <cr><lf><whitspace> sequence MUST  
> > be regarded as a  single   space according to the rfc's.
> 
> This could be done both in gmime and in balsa - depending whether the  
> gmime's API is defined to return canonized strings or not. I do not see  
> this issue mentioned in the doc. g_mime_header_get() says only "the  
> value of the header requested". I guess we can do it on balsa side  
> unless Jeff plans to do it for other purpose. In such a case, it might  
> worth to mention this in the doc that the headers may be returned in a  
> incanonical form.

the rfc doesn't say to replace tabs with SPACE, it says simply that
unfolding a header involves removing of the CRLF leaving only the WSP
(which includes ' ' and '\t')

Jeff