[Mailman-Users] Mailman Splitting Subject

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Lloyd F. Tennison writes:

 > I saw that, but it is not really an answer as te problem is that it
 > is inserting a TAB, not whitespace, and that is what is causing the
 > problem.  A carriage return and spaces would be fine. The tab is
 > what most clients cannot handle.

Carl's reply notwithstanding, Barry considers this "something we
should do something about".

It's almost a trivial patch; in the email/Generator.py file find the
keyword argument continuation_ws='\t' to the Header initialization and
change the '\t' to ' '.

Unfortunately, on my Debian system that is in the main Python library,
and I will not mess with that (nor recommend that you do so).  If you
have one of the Mailman installations with a self-contained email
package (ie, in .../mailman/Mailman/mailman), then it is probably safe
to do that surgery.  I believe you'll have to restart Mailman, but
Python will pick up the change automagically.


 > 
 > 
 > ----- Original Message -----
 > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Splitting Subject
 > Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 14:21:53 -0700 (PDT)
 > From: cpz at tuunq.com (Carl Zwanzig)
 > 
 > In a flurry of recycled electrons, Lloyd F. Tennison wrote:
 > > Am having a problem where Mailman is splitting a subject and adding a "\n" 
 > > and what seems to be a tab in the subject line in the mail logs.(The tab is 
 > > what can be seen in the headers after the message is sent.)  This of course, 
 > > makes for a wrong display in mail clients. 
 > 
 > This was just discussed last week (or the week before). In short, the 
 > subject-line folding is correct, the mail client behavour is not.
 > Please check this list's archives for a discussion.
 > 
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