• Re: Tbird and square brackets in subject field - was - Re: Parenthesis

    From Bret Busby@21:1/5 to Bret Busby on Sun Jun 2 19:20:02 2024
    On 3/6/24 01:09, Bret Busby wrote:
    On 3/6/24 01:06, Bret Busby wrote:
    On 3/6/24 00:52, [email protected] wrote:
    On 6/1/24 23:02, Max Nikulin wrote:
    On 02/06/2024 02:59, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
    If you change subject
    or emphasis in mid-thread, please change the subject line on your
    email
    accordingly so that this can be clearly seen.

    For example: New question [WAS Old topic]

    Are square brackets intentional here? E.g. thunderbird strips "(was:"
    subject part from response subject.

    This is true.  I (on Thunderbird 115) had to restore the subject line
    after
    Thunderbird modified it.  Do you know of a plugin or weird setting to
    make
    it stop doing that?  Web searches were fruitless.

    --
    A mob with torches and pitchforks approaches the castle.
    "Sire, the peasants are revolting!"
    "Yeah, disgusting, aren't they?"

    I am using Tbird "115.11.0 (64-bit)" and, in checking, have found that
    square brackets are apparently not molested in this version of Tbird.

    In checking in my Inbox, for email from a mailing list that uses
    mailing list name subject field prepending, I observed that the
    GnuCash mailing list uses such prepending, and the subject line
    "Re: [GNC] Problem with New Account Creation"
    is apparently not molested by Tbird.


    Similarly, with this (the Debian users) list,
    "Re: [solved] Re: No login with Debian 12 ssh client, ssh-rsa key,
    Debian 8 sshd"
    and
    "Re: [Solved]: What DE to replace GNOME with?"
    appear to be unmolested by Tbird.

    Whilst I regard Tbird after v102.x, as a pile of faecal matter, having
    been downgraded from v102.x (the higher the version number, the
    greater the degree of downgrading), the reported problem involving
    square brackets in the subject field, is not apparent on this system,
    making me wonder whether the reported problem, is an effect of either
    affected users' settings, or, desktop environments, or, themes.

    ..
    Bret Busby
    Armadale
    West Australia
    (UTC+0800)
    ..............

    Sorry - I should have changed the subject field value, in my last
    previous post, to more properly refer to where this thread has gone.

    ..
    Bret Busby
    Armadale
    West Australia
    (UTC+0800)
    ..............

    Similarly to the above examples; just came through - the subject field "[SECURITY] [DSA 5703-1] linux security update"
    is also unmolested by Tbird.

    And, that has two sets of square brackets.

    ..
    Bret Busby
    Armadale
    West Australia
    (UTC+0800)
    ..............

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