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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Reply-To: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <cljs@PointedEars.de>
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Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2012 14:01:52 +0200
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Subject: Re: [OT] Thunderbird duplicates leading dot
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Christoph Becker wrote:

> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> Gregor Kofler wrote:
>>> Am 2012-08-03 00:56, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn meinte:
>>>> […] a long-standing bug in your Thunderbird prevents you from seeing
>>>> [the
>>>> code as posted (at least upon quoting it), which is syntactically
>>>> correct as it has only one dot at the front.
>>> Interesting. My TB (also 14.0 on Ubuntu 12.04) doesn't show this bug.
>>> Both the OP and a quoted OP don't display an erroneous second dot.
>> Apparently it is a heisenbug; I could neither reproduce it with Icedove
>> 10.0.5 nor find anything about it in Bugzilla.  It may have to do with
>> settings, in particular with format=flowed.  I have encountered this bug
>> years ago, before I stopped using Thunderbird as newsreader, so I do not
>> remember if I fixed it and, if yes, how.
>> 
> If I'm not mistaken, it is the bug reported in
> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170727> (see Comment 1 and
> 5). A leading dot is only duplicated in messages downloaded for offline
> reading. So I switched to online reading, what works fine.

I have added your case and observations to that bug, and voted on it.  
Thanks for your feedback.


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