[ mailman-Bugs-736559 ] Subject wrap with tab character

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Bugs item #736559, was opened at 2003-05-12 17:05
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Category: mail delivery
Group: 2.1 (stable)
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Invalid
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Swen Haubold (swen_haubold)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Subject wrap with tab character

Initial Comment:
Mailman: 2.1.2

The subject line is wrapped by a tab character, if the line 
contains more than 78 characters. In this case a space is 
replaced by an tab character.

This behaviour gives trouble with some e-mail client and 
is also not handled by MHonArc correctly. 

In an e-mail client a long space is shown or a special 
character. MHonArc simply removes the tab character 
therefore two words are combined, e.g. the tab is 
inserted between the two word "and" and "delivery"; in 
the archive the subject contains the new word 
"anddelivery"


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>Comment By: Tokio Kikuchi (tkikuchi)
Date: 2005-10-27 00:55

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RFC 2822 example states:

           Subject: This is a test

   can be represented as:

           Subject: This
            is a test

Therefore, if MHonArc or a MUA simply removes tab char and
not insertes a space in place of the FWS (folding white
space), it is his fault.  Mailman now select FWS from tab or
space as appeared in the original message. 


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Comment By: Jeff Wilson (jwilson75503)
Date: 2005-10-25 03:47

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This behavior seems to still occur in 2.1.6 

http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%
40python.org/msg09027.html

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Comment By: Dave Disser (disser)
Date: 2003-06-04 22:28

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I notice this also with Mailman 2.1.1.  I don't see code in mailman doing it, 
so it appears to be in email.Header or unicode.

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