MIME Digest Sub-Message Subjects Chopped On Wide Displays
Bug #62804 reported by
Forest Bond
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| mutt (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
When viewing the index of messages in a mailbox on a terminal that is wider than 80 columns, the message subjects are allowed to take more horizontal space than normal, fitting more text on the screen. However, when viewing the index of a MIME Digest mail containing RFC 822 messages on a wide terminal, the subjects remain chopped as if the display was only 80 columns wide.
This is using mutt on both Dapper and Edgy.
-Forest
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| Andrew McCarthy (andrewmccarthy) wrote | #1 |
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| Forest Bond (forest-bond) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in mutt: | |
| status: | Unconfirmed → Rejected |
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The format of the listing is given by the attach_format configuration variable. The default for this includes a fixed-width entry for the description (which is the e-mail subject) of "%.40d".
You can remove the .40 to allow the subject to be any length, but if the subject is very long, it can push the mimetype, encoding and size information off the side of the screen. The reason this isn't a problem with the main mailbox index is that the subject is the last thing on the line, and so is simply truncated. You might be able to find a completely different attach_format setup that you like better which also has the description at the end of the line.