On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 12:58 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> The problem is the mail client program, specifically
> Thunderbird. There must be a bug in T-bird that is tickled
> by these non-text characters because although the Subject
> line exists with ***SPAM*** in it if I look at the actual
> message in the mailbox with an editor, T-bird displays
> the subject line as a BLANK subject.
As you said, this appears to be a thunderbird issue. Went there to
report it?
> Now, why don't I just write a rule in T-bird that trashes mail
> that has a blank subject line, I hear you ask?
Err, nope. :) Note that the Subject actually is NOT empty, as you said.
And unless filtering in TB on (raw or decoded) headers is affected by
the very same bug /displaying/ the Subject header in a specific widget
is... Very unlikely. What's invisible to the eye in the UI seriously
isn't invisible to code logic.
This appears to be a client *rendering*, displaying bug. Not to be
confused with an actual empty header (which isn't the same as a missing
header either) to filter on.
Even though this most likely is a TB bug, it would be interesting to
have a look at these headers. If possible, the raw one, prior to your SA
header munging, err, rewriting option.
guenther
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