OK. What's happening is that when you have an extremely long subject, so that the Subject header (beginning with the word "Subject: " then your subject) is longer than the standard maximum length, which I think is the closest word ending to 76 characters (maybe 80), the sending Entourage (yours) breaks the line in the headers and inserts a tab character at the beginning of the second line. That's the standard procedure for long headers. But then the receiving Entourage (mine, and everyone else here) incorporates that tab character back into the subject line when it reconstitutes it from the headers to display it. I'm not sure if that's exactly a bug, but it's not very good. It should replace the tab by a space.
Probably not too many people would suffer the same consequences I did. I was making a tab-delimited text file from various parts of various messages. I always replace carriage returns and tabs in message bodies for obscure symbols, then decipher them the other end. but I never realized I might have to do it for subjects too since users (you) can never enter a tab or return character. It's Entourage itself which wrote that tab. I think that when receiving messages it should convert tabs at the beginnings of line continuations back into spaces, but what do I know? I'll ask. That's for confirming you didn't type it. -- Paul Berkowitz On 1/23/02 9:25 PM, "Jeffrey Jolando Sim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Paul, > > I wish I have more technical knowledge as you. But I do not know what you > meant by a 'tab' character. I just type it. I did not use any 'tab'. I > merely use 'space' bar to space out the word as normal typing. I did not > copy and paste my subject from somewhere. Infact, I just retype the subject > line again with spelling mistake in the 'Entourage' to 'Entourgae'. Does it > appear different? I wonder this will help you or perhaps trigger > something/thoughts that you can come up with a solution. > > Anyway... Thanks again for your help. If you think that I can be of help in > anyway, you can write again. > > Regards, Jeffrey > > > > on 24/01/2002 10:55 AM, Paul Berkowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> On 1/23/02 4:29 AM, "Jeffrey Jolando Sim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Thank you. I've just imported successfully. >>> >>> Thanks again. >> >> No problem. Glad to help. Perhaps you can return the favor. Can you explain >> how you managed to get a 'tab' character into that very long subject line? >> That's not possible to do by typing in Entourage itself - pressing the Tab >> key while in the subject field puts the cursor into the message body. Lots >> of things depend on that behavior, which is quite common on the Mac. That >> tab character completely mucked up a script I'm writing! So I want to know >> how you did it. >> >> Your first message in this thread was sent from Entourage 2001. Did you copy >> and paste your subject in from somewhere else? Some message text maybe, or >> other text? I'm quite puzzled. It's possible it was actually a return >> character (end-of-line-or-paragraph character) that got changed into a tab >> instead of into a space, as I'm sure it should, when you pasted it in. > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
