On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 03:49:47PM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 3:44 AM, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 09:19:19AM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > So it is. The problem happens when email.mime.text.MIMEText wraps the
> > subject line; see attached test program.
>
> Ouch. So that's basically a bug in the python standard libraries :( It
> looks a lot like this one, doesn't it? https://bugs.python.org/issue25257
>
> > > Have you
> > > seen this with any other messages, that you can recall, or just this one?
> >
> > Just this one. However, no other hackers subject line since 2015-01-01
> > contains a comma followed by something other than a space.
>
> I wonder in that case if it's worth trying to do something about that in
> our code, or just leave it be.
In light of those facts, I would leave it. Thanks for tracking down the
Python bug.