Re: Bug in display of subject fields containing TAB characters

Alexey Toptygin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.pine.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 9 Jul 2006, Mats Dufberg wrote:

> I'm using pine version 4.64 on FreeBSD.
>
> When the subject field contains a TAB character, pine displays that
> subject field incorrectly. I recieved an email with the following subject
> field folded on three lines where ^I represents a TAB character:
>
> Subject: [ooo-announce]
> ^IOpenOffice.org welcomes Microsoft's tentative moves towards
> ^IOpenDocument
>
>
> That subject field is displayd with extra white space where the TAB
> characters have been (on one line):
>
> Subject: [ooo-announce]  OpenOffice.org welcomes Microsoft's tentative
> moves towards           OpenDocument

I can't reproduce the problem the way you describe it. I can however get 
the result you describe if there is extra whitespace at the end of lines 1 
and 2 in the subject. If that is what you have, then pine is behaving 
correctly; see RFC822 paragraph 3.1.1.

 			Alexey
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