[Alpine-info] weird behavior in saving messages from one folder to another

[Sean C. Farley]

On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, Matt Ackeret wrote:


> On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:

>> On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, Sean C. Farley wrote:

>>

>>> I am hijacking this thread to ask a question about the subject line.

>>> In the past, I had asked why I was seeing extra space between words

>>> in the subject.  I was told that it was due to some MUA's improperly

>>> indenting the continuation of a subject line with more than a single

>>> space.  This is the standard.

>>>

>>> However, this E-mail I received also has more than a single space,

>>> yet it was produced by Alpine.  Here are some of the headers:

>>

>> Not necessarily MUA's. Sometimes MTA's. The list processing software

>> is the guilty party here, I believe. (This is a Mailman list, right?)

>

> In my 80 column wide Terminal window, I see the subject of the message

> I am responding to as this:

> Subject: Re: [Alpine-info] weird behavior in saving messages from one folder  o    another

>

> Note that the 't' in 'to' is missing.

>

> When I started the reply, then exited my external editor (vim), I did

> see the extra spaces.


I have also seen strange behavior regarding spaces such as this.  I also
use vim for the editor.  Hopefully, it is not responsible.  ;)


> I postponed, then started editing the message again.. now at least to

> me, it appears correct without the spaces/tabs/whatever.


Neat trick.  I was able to replicate it.


> When I was sending my earlier messages today, I did notice weirdness

> similar to this -- sometimes the spaces/part of the title that showed

> up after the spaces would appear/disappear as I was editing the other

> headers (I make sure to ONLY send to the list [though often I just

> leave the CC field in there] and Reply-To the list..)  So I'm ^King,

> and ^Ring to show the reply to field.

>

> It's not 100% reproducible, but I can get 'weird things' like this to

> happen fairly frequently.


I can easily reproduce a space counting issue when hitting tab to cycle
through my inbox's.  If there are no new messages, I will see this most
of the time:
[Checking Example for recent messages DONE]

but sometimes I see this with varying numbers of spaces before DONE:
[Checking Example for recent messages    DONE]

Sean
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