Package: pine
Version: 4.64-1
Severity: normal

Some background info: I hit this problem after 2 failed attempts to
submit some cypress_m8 driver patches to the linux-usb-devel mailing
list.  The failure was due to the patches being subtlely
whitespace-mangled by pine, which was due to pine sending with flowed
text turned on.  When flowed-text is not disabled (it's on by
default), pine adds the attribute format=flowed to the Content-Type
header and then proceeds to massage the text to adhere to some RFC
standards about flowed text.

The pine docs state that flowed-text on sent messages can be disabled
on a per-message basis by hitting ^V after ^X but before confirming
the send - and that is when I hit this bug.  What really happened is
that while the format=flowed attribute went away, the message _still_
got mangled.

(A patch submission mangled in this way by pine still "looks" normal,
but due to pine's prepending extraneous whitespace on various lines of
text, the patch is wrecked.)

  -Mike


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (420, 'testing'), (90, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-apm-isely1
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages pine depends on:
ii  libc6                 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libldap2              2.1.30-8           OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libncurses5           5.4-4              Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libssl0.9.7           0.9.7e-3sarge1     SSL shared libraries
ii  mime-support          3.28-1             MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap

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