[Bug 452655] Re: Mozilla Thunderbird Presents Gap in Subject - Thunderbird does not compact /t into a space

[komputes]

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: thunderbird
  
  Mozilla Thunderbird Presents Gap in Subject. Thunderbird does not
  compact /t into a space.
  
  This has always been an issue but recently I have compared the gap in
  email subject lines on one of my imap servers (Postfix -> Dovecot ->
  Thunderbird) to the lack of gap in email subject lines on
  imap.gmail.com, and I think there is something wrong with the mail
  server which adds spaces after a certain number of words/chars...
  
  When I contacted my system administrator with this concerned his response was the following:
  ==
  This is not a bug in the IMAP server.  It's possibly a bug in Thunderbird.  Taking a random email from your screenshot, the original header looks like this on disk.
  
  | Subject: [Bug 179042] Re: Videos tear and "blink" when enabling compiz
  [AMD         Feature #7647] [EPR#257833]
  
  (Which is 'AMD\n\tFeature')
  
  Other MUAs (including at least Mutt and Gnus) compact the \t down to a single space.  I don't know RFC 2821 well enough to know off the top of my head if Thunderbird's behaviour is unequivocally a bug, but it's certainly unintuitive and I'd recommend you file a bug against it in Ubuntu.
  ==
  
+ The server which gives me this problem runs dovecot-imapd
+ 1:1.0.10-1ubuntu5.2 on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Herron). My client is
+ Thunderbird on 9.10 (details below) but this issue has been happening
+ since ~2007 (that's when I noticed it) as far as I remember.
+ 
  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  CheckboxSubmission: 37b6e744530b0903e91adb26018991f0
  CheckboxSystem: d00f84de8a555815fa1c4660280da308
  Date: Thu Oct 15 19:36:46 2009
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl
  Package: thunderbird 2.0.0.23+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
  ProcEnviron:
-  LANGUAGE=en_CA.UTF-8
-  PATH=(custom, user)
-  LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
-  SHELL=/bin/bash
+  LANGUAGE=en_CA.UTF-8
+  PATH=(custom, user)
+  LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
+  SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-12.41-generic
  SourcePackage: thunderbird
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-12-generic i686

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Mozilla Thunderbird Presents Gap in Subject - Thunderbird does not compact /t into a space
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