Re: [StGit PATCH] mail: Use space rather than tab for long header folding

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On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Catalin Marinas
<catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> 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?

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