[Python-checkins] Black boxes on subject column

Sat Dec 20 22:49:56 CET 2008

Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>> Hello. Please look at attached image.png. This is snapshot of Mozilla
>> Thundirbird. There are black boxes on subject column.
>>>> I'm not sure when this started. (Maybe after python-3000-checkins
>> were merged?) Thank you.
>> I think this is a bug in your email reader. In Icedove (which is fairly
> similar), it displays fine. If I look at the message source, I see that
> the Subject line is broken into two lines, with leading space in the
> second line. I think this is technically allowed.
>> AFAICT, this always happened. For example, if you look at
>> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-checkins/2008-August.txt.gz
>> you'll see that the subject of 20080801191123.D7EE61E4012 at bag.python.org
> is also broken into multiple lines.
>> Regards,
> Martin

Thank you for the info. :-)