Wow! that's pretty awesome. Thank Alan.
That will make life a little easier just knowing how to deal with that
Netscape oddity. I'm guessing this isn't something high on their list of
things to fix.
--
Mark
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On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> Mark Weaver wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> > that is exactly what I was doing. In fact, strangely enough it started
> > happening when I was setting up a filter I affectionately call the
> > twit-list to filter Mallard and his cohort Bill. :) odd, huh? For what
> > ever reason Netscape is doing this what you said makes sense. What do
> > you supposed is causing Netscape to behave this way when performing
> > this?
> [snip]
>
> Mark....I did an experiment and corrupted my mailrules file
> purposely by using copy/paste. Then I opened it in a text
> editor and visually scanned it for any oddities.
>
> I found that the corruption was (it was easy to find as it was
> the filter I'd edited using copy/paste that was corrupted) a
> linefeed followed by a bunch of spaces. Removing the linefeed
> and the following spaces fixed the file so that it was again
> recognisible by netscape messenger (no error message).
>
> For some reason, when copy/pasting from the To:, From:, Reply
> To:, etc. fields in netscape messenger's messages the paste
> function adds extra linefeeds and spaces to the text you are
> pasting. That's as close to a reason as I can get. :-)
>
> Alan
>
>
