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From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [StGit PATCH] mail: Use space rather than tab for long header 
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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:15:19 +0000
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On 12 February 2010 16:09, Karl Wiberg <kha@treskal.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Catalin Marinas
> <catalin.marinas@arm.com> wrote:
>
>> The default Python implementation (at least 2.5 and earlier) fold long
>> e-mail header lines by inserting "\n\t". This causes issues with some
>> e-mail clients that remove both "\n\t". The RFC2822 shows that folding
>> should be done with "\n ". The Python workaround is to use a Header
>> object instead of a string when setting the message headers.
>
> Aha. If this works like I think it does, it'll eliminate the problem
> where patches with long subject lines pick up tab characters when
> imported from e-mails. But that's not the motivation you're
> describing, is it?

My main motivation is only for sending e-mails as I have an Exchange
server here which removes the tab completely sticking two words
together. If you import an e-mail sent by the patched StGit, yes, it
will solve this as well.

-- 
Catalin