Re: [Evolution] Corrup Subjetc when save to mbox

[Joakim Tjernlund <joakim tjernlund transmode se>]

On Mon, 2015-11-09 at 11:18 +0100, Milan Crha wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-11-06 at 15:18 +0000, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > The Subject: line has a line feed in it.
>
>       Hi,
> it's correct, it's called folding, and it's done in headers on purpose.
>
> > This line also got line breaks:
> > @@ -2051,13 +2051,32 @@ static int __xipram
> > do_getlockstatus_oneblock(struct map_info *map,
>
> This is also correct. The message content is saved in a
> quoted-printable encoding, at least that attached, which allows such
> thing.

This is only correct as it turns out it was the sender who sent it wrapped.
Had Evo. done this, it would have been a bug.

> > Seems like evo forcefully breaks lines which are too long, even when
> > saved to mbox!
>
> The mbox format is just a set of messages, conforming to RFC 822, with
> a certain-formatted separator between the messages.
>
> What you really want to do is to either save the message content (the
> patch) as a text file and only then do any processing on it, or use the
> tool of your version control system, which might be git-am in case of
> the git, which is supposed to deal with such things in the messages.

But there is no such save function, I can only find save to mbox.

 Jocke