[Python-checkins] Black boxes on subject column

Sun Dec 21 01:34:53 CET 2008

Hirokazu Yamamoto wrote:
> 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. :-)

It just be a client version thing - I'm a Thunderbird user as well, and
2.0.0.18 on Kubuntu doesn't have a problem with the line breaks (it just
drops them).
Cheers,
Nick.
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Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia
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