[Tracker-discuss] [issue147] Current email headers corrupt mail reader display

[Barry Warsaw]

Barry Warsaw added the comment:

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On Sep 21, 2007, at 3:13 AM, Stephen Turnbull wrote:

> It might help (and certainly would aid readability until the full  
> cause of the
> expanding headers is understood) if instead of using TABs to  
> creating folding
> whitespace, the email module was told to use a SPACE for that.

The email package in Python 3 is (I believe) much better at  
preserving existing folding whitespace according to the rues of RFC  
2822.  This code should be backported to Python 2 and a new version  
should be released.

- -Barry

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