Description of problem: It seems in the latest version of Thunderbird in F13, whenever I send an email (text-based, not HTML-based), the program inserts an extra space at the beginning of the message. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100720 Fedora/3.1.1-1.fc13 Thunderbird/3.1.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. type an email in thunderbird with no space as the first character in the message 2. send as text-based 3. open email in the 'Sent' folder Actual results: There is an extra space on the first line of the message Expected results: There should not be a space there Additional info: This did not happen in the previous version of Thunderbird: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100621 Fedora/3.0.5-1.fc13 Thunderbird/3.0.5
This has more votes at bugzilla.mozilla.org than any other open Thunderbird bug. It has (as of the last time I checked) 79 people on its CC list. The thread about it on getsatisfaction.com (http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/topics/tb_3_1_inserts_space_at_the_start_of_a_sent_message_discussion_of_bugs_in_mozilla_thunderbird) is marked "111 people have this problem" and is currently by far the most popular (unpopular?) issue at http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/problems/common. Mozilla has a fix in hand (written by me), but they've failed to get it into several Thunderbird releases now because of procedural issues (it's a patch to the Mozilla core, not to Thunderbird code, so the barrier to acceptance is much higher) and resource issues (the folks who need to be involved in allowing it to pass through that barrier are unfortunately very much dragging their feet). I am wondering if we can sneak it into the Thunderbird that's distributed with Fedora for F14. We already have a number of Fedora-specific Thunderbird patches, so adding one more would not be doing something completely new. We would be patching just the Thunderbird source, not the Mozilla core, so we would be avoiding the procedural issues that the Mozilla developers are stuck with since they can't accept this patch until it's approved by the core developers, who have apparently not made it a priority, because Thunderbird is far less important to them than Firefox. It would score some points for Fedora because it would no longer have this bug while the other distributions would continue to have it. And it would get the package out to a lot of people, which might help the Mozilla core folks to feel more comfortable about finally accepting it themselves.
The fix has now passed all required Mozilla.org approvals, is being burned in, and will be in the next Thunderbird release. Again, it sure would be neat to sneak this into Fedora 14 and get one step ahead of all the other distributions.
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