266709 - Message headers containing linebreaks display incorrectly

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 240924

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[John Williams]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Thunderbird versions 0.7.3 and 0.8

I often get emails here the subject header is split across multiple lines, and
the continuation lines are indented with tab characters. The tabs are treated as
if they were part of the subject line.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Look at any folder containing messages where the subject header has a linebreak.
 Such messages show up frequently on the python-dev mailing list
(http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev).
Actual Results:  
Under Gnome 2, the tab characters show up in the folder summary as boxes
containing "0009"; in other places the tabs are rendered as large gaps in the text.

Expected Results:  
Tabs should be translated to spaces.

I've seen this problem with RedHat 9 and Debian Linux.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Dupe of bug 240924?  (See also bug 251325.)

Comment 2

[John Williams]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 240924 ***