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[perl #128020] [PATCH] perlbug needs to wrap long lines for MTAsafety

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From:
James E Keenan via RT
Date:
April 29, 2016 22:25
Subject:
[perl #128020] [PATCH] perlbug needs to wrap long lines for MTAsafety
Message ID:
rt-4.0.18-24419-1461968726-449.128020-15-0@perl.org
On Thu Apr 28 13:28:18 2016, ntyni@debian.org wrote:
> This is a bug report for perl from Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>,
> generated with the help of perlbug 1.40 running under perl 5.22.1.
> 
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> [Please describe your issue here]
> 
> My perlbug report got rejected by an MTA because it had a line with
> 1000
> characters, namely the config_args=[...] line from Config::myconfig().
> This seems to be a common limit with MTAs, see for instance
>   http://www.jebriggs.com/blog/2010/07/smtp-maximum-line-lengths/
> 
> Please consider the attached patch set, which implements wrapping the
> report body at 900 characters. Attachments and message headers are
> left untouched.
> 
> This report was sent with a patched perlbug; otherwise it would not
> have made it through.
> 

Would it be possible to provide a unit test for this?

Thank you very much.

-- 
James E Keenan (jkeenan@cpan.org)

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