Re: [Evolution-hackers] Review a patch?

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj novell com>]

Fudging the linked list in camel is a gross hack (made worse by the fact
that the MIME specification does not dictate that the name param be
last), this is why I suggested you do it in the composer by making it
set the name parameter last when constructing the headers.

Jeff

On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 17:50 -0400, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> Some time ago, I submitted a patch to fix a bug in Evolution [1,2] that
> is a simple workaround for some types of broken servers that don't
> properly parse MIME header fields.
> 
> The patch was rejected, however, I (still) do not understand why, and I
> would like to do so such that I can get this patch into Evolution.  I
> can understand that it's not fun to work around server issues, but the
> fix is not bad, and it maintains MIME standards compliance, without any
> side effects that I have been able to note.  I have been using this
> patch personally since before I submitted it.
> 
> Any advice or ideas?
> 
> 	Thanks!
> 	Mike Trausch
> 
> [1] http://tinyurl.com/4ltg99 (Launchpad)
> [2] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=518312
> 
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