Subj : NNTP
To   : apam
From : Oli
Date : Thu Oct 13 2022 06:41 pm

apam wrote (2022-10-13):

 >> How are MSGID and REPLY kludges translated? (Gatebau?)

 >> Will it support format=flowed?
 >> https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3676.html

 a> I'm not really up to that yet. Still working on getting the basic reading
 a> working. I don't know what Gatebau is, I thought when I look at MSGID and
 a> REPLYs I'll see what jamNNTP does.

AFAIK JamNNTPd just use the message number from the JAM message base. It doesn't always work reliable, but I'm not sure why (maybe the message number changes after packing the message base?).

Gatebau:
https://fidogate.sourceforge.net/msgid.html
https://fidogate.sourceforge.net/ (References)

 a> I will have a look at your format=flowed link tomorrow, again not sure
 a> what that is.

 a> Tonight I added Content-Type header, which I have format=fixed. I guess
 a> it's to do with line wrapping.

Internet mail format is limited to 1000 chars (998 + CRLF) and most mail/news clients wrap lines at <80 chars. In fidonet we use long lines, sometimes longer than 1000 chars. format=flowed is a simple workaround to encode unwrapped long lines in wrapped lines (whitespace before CRLF, like the 2 whitespaces with Markdown). Works great with Thunderbird and Claws Mail.



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