Re: [Evolution] Corrupt Subject(and more) when saved to mbox

[Ángel González <angel 16bits net>]

Pete Biggs wrote:
> > > > The Subject: line has a line feed in it.
> > >
> > > That's OK - in headers line feeds are allowed, the next line
> > > needs to
> > > be indented and it's treated as a single line *by mail aware
> > > programs*.
> > > Unfortunately dos2unix doesn't know about anything about mail!
> >
> > Then we really need a a new save target because it is impossible to
> > save a mail as it was written, the mbox target always converts NL
> > to
> > CR+NL
>
> RFC 2822 that defines MBOX format says that the line delimiter is
> CR/LF
> - so Evo is doing the correct thing.
>
> But you are right in saying that there should be a save target other
> than MBOX.  It's not really something that has ever bothered me as I
> usually cut and paste from emails rather than saving.

No. MBOX is a local storing format. No rfc defines it (and thus we have
mboxo, mboxrd, mboxcl, mboxcl2…) just like Maildir is not defined.

What rfc 822 series defines is the format of an “email message”
(Internet Message Format).


Joakin wrote:
> Then we really need a a new save target because it is impossible to
> save a mail as it was written, the mbox target always converts NL to
> CR+NL

As a workaround: View source, Select All, Copy, Paste in text editor,
Save