Re: CVS HEAD, titles (multilines) all in a mess

[Peter Bloomfield <peterbloomfield bellsouth net>]

On 07/19/2005 07:54:00 AM, Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) wrote:
> Hi, I got some mails with multilines (or loong lines, dunno) which  
> are splitted in a strange way).
>
> I get something like that:
>
> Sujet : Re: [linux-lvm] PVs not found (kernel 2.4<->devfs?) [was:
> lvm lost
> 	after reboot!?]

For local (non-IMAP) mailboxes, Balsa gets the subject from GMime, and  
displays it in a GtkTextView.  Apparently, GMime doesn't unfold  
headers, so a long and folded subject still has its newline(s), and the  
following white space that makes it a continuation of the original  
header (in your example, after "lvm lost").  But its first line still  
may be long enough to be wrapped in the text-view (in your example,  
after "[was:".

I believe a case can be made for displaying the subject the way GMime  
hands it over: the sender may have specifically formatted it that way.   
On the other hand, perhaps it's more likely that the sender's MUA  
folded a long line and added the white space, in which case unfolding  
it, removing the white space, and allowing the text-view to wrap the  
result is closer to what the sender intended.

Opinions?

Peter