mailing list trivia (Re: [REPOST] Re: Dillo Win32

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> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 07:33:36AM +0000, corvid wrote:
>
>I see what the problem was now with the strange little chunk of a msg.
>When Roger wrote:
>> [...]
>> required either.
>> 
>> From here, mintty's code is likely an excellent resource to figure how they 
>> worked around the Window's issues with mouse copy & pasting.
>
>Pipermail saw a blank line followed by "From ", and thought "new msg!" and
>got all confused when generating the archive. IIRC, mail(1) always had a hard
>time with that one as well.


This is explicitly Google's fault then.  I use mutt with gmail, and I find 
GMail likes blank lines on copy & paste.

There might be something within my muttrc causing this too, but I doubt it as I 
never seen so many problems with blank lines and extended long lines after 
pasting within a Mutt session.  (Only using Mutt with GMail IMAP have I seen 
this!  Never in an ordinary local Mutt session.  I also use VIM as the editor:

set editor = '/usr/bin/vim --noplugin +/^$' # default: '(empty)'

I think it happens during the IMAP session, IMAP/terminal are interpretting 
newlines incorrectly on paste.  As to why this occurred within the From: field 
makes this even more strange as copy/paste would likely not have occurred 
there.

Personally, I consider this a GMail bug.

-- 
Roger
http://rogerx.freeshell.org/