Re: mailing list problem: tabs in linux-kernel headers

From: Q (Q@ping.be)
Date: Sun Feb 13 2000 - 15:41:40 EST


On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 06:08:13PM +0000, Steve Dodd wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 09:26:04AM -0800, Zack Brown wrote:
>
> > For the past few weeks there's been a change in linux-kernel posts. The
> > From:, Date:, and certain other headers are followed by tabs instead of
> > spaces. This breaks things like 'grepmail'. Manually removing the tabs from
> > just the From: and Date: headers seems to fix it.
>
> I'm not seeing this here, and I'd be very surprised to find anything at vger
> fiddling with message headers like this. Some people's MUAs may generate tabs
> in the headers, but AFAIK this is perfectly valid. If you're seeing it on
> *all* linux-kernel posts, it must something between you and vger doing
> something silly..

I'm seeing a tab in all Date, and X-Loop fields too.

It's "Date: \tSun" ...

>From does no contain tab here.

Don't have a problem with it tho.

Q

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