Developers of Sympa

[Adam Bernstein <address@concealed>]

FYI, we've found additional subscribers complaining about lines all running 
together in their text digests, resulting from sympa's encoding the digest 
in base64 and their mail client (presumably Eudora) displaying it without 
linebreaks.  Since I didn't get any answers about removing the new MIME 
part-fixing code, I tried commenting it out, and have seen no ill effects. 
 So, this is how we're now running (patch to mail.pm in Sympa 5.3.4):

*** mail.pm-orig        Tue Feb 19 13:40:05 2008
--- mail.pm     Tue Feb 19 13:40:14 2008
***************
*** 829,835 ****
      }

      $msg->head->delete("X-Mailer");
!     $msg = &fix_part($msg, $parser, $attachments);
      $msg->head->add("X-Mailer", sprintf "Sympa %s", $Version::Version);
      return $msg->as_string;
  }
--- 829,835 ----
      }

      $msg->head->delete("X-Mailer");
! #    $msg = &fix_part($msg, $parser, $attachments);
      $msg->head->add("X-Mailer", sprintf "Sympa %s", $Version::Version);
      return $msg->as_string;
  }

I hope something can be done in the MIME encoding code to accommodate these 
clients that currently decode it without linebreaks, and in the meantime 
I'd suggest taking the code out entirely.

    adam