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Re: Mutt folds subject lines but Outlook doesn't properly unfold



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On Tuesday, November 27 at 05:33 PM, quoth Frank Bulk:
> Because I don't have access to the true raw text of the message (because of 
> Outlook), it's hard for me to tell if it's WSP that Outlook is converting to 
> tab or if mutt made it a tab.  I'm going to try and packet capture the 
> output from cron to our mail gateway to see if it's a tab or WSP.

Don't worry about that; testing it is as easy as sending yourself a 
message with a very long subject. It's mutt that's adding the tab, and 
yes, it's a tab.

> One of two scenarios:
> a) mutt folds it using a CR-LF-tab, and Outlook is properly unfolding it. 
> b) mutt folds it using CR-LF-WSP, and Outlook sees WSP before 'connecting' 
> and unfolds it by replacing the WSP with a tab, and then removes the CRLF.

WSP stands for "whitespace" or "any whitespace character". 
Unfortunately, what's going on here is option a.

~Kyle
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