[Pan-users] Fun with Pan's header parsing...

[Toby A Inkster]

Close pan.

Open up ~/.pan/profiles.xml and create a multi-line attribution by
changing, say:

<attribution>On %d, %n wrote:</attribution>

to:

<attribution>On %d,
%n wrote:</attribution>

Open pan again. Reply to some message, and choose the posting profile
you've just modified. Pan will correctly attribute the post:

On blah,
foobar wrote:

"Hurrah," we think! We have a multiline attribution!

But now we try to send the message. It fails. "Why?" we wonder.

I'll tell you why. Pan sets an internal header (never sent to the news
server) X-Pan-Internal-Attribution. It is set like follows:

X-Pan-Internal-Attribution: On blah, foobar wrote:

However, if the attribution contains a new line character, we get:

X-Pan-Internal-Attribution: On blah, 
foobar wrote:

So it looks like there are two different headers set, one of them
containing a space (not an allowed character) so Pan chokes.

Anyway, I cordially request a way of inserting new line characters into
attributions.

X-Pan-Internal-Also-On-My-Wishlist: GPG

Ciao.

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