Mail App Long References Header

I have problems replying to some messages in Mail App. It happens when there are a few recipients on the conversation and the references header has got quite large.
When I view the raw source of the message in my inbox I can see that the references header is quite big, with each reference separated by a line break. My reply to this message is sent okay but gets stuck in our mail server's outgoing SMTP queue. Viewing the sent message's raw source reveals that Mail App has removed all the line breaks in the reference header and sent it all as a single line of well over 1000 characters in length. I believe that this behaviour is not RFC compliant.
Is there a way to stop Mail App from doing this?
OS X 10.10.1 (14B25)
Mail Version 8.1 (1993)

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