From: Karl Wiberg Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:09:47 GMT Subject: Re: [StGit PATCH] mail: Use space rather than tab for long header folding Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20100212153905.11578.83879.stgit@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Catalin Marinas 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? -- Karl Wiberg, kha@treskal.com subrabbit.wordpress.com www.treskal.com/kalle