Setting up SMTP AUTH with pine, Earthlink suggests I "contact Linux Support" (OT)

[Bill Horne]

Tom Metro wrote:

>> I don't know why, but this email's title shows up with a subject line 
>> that includes a date, displayed roughly like so:
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>>                    AUG
>> "... with pine, 18 Earthlink ...", except that the date is only about 
>> 1.5 lines high.
>>                    1994
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> The subject line has an embedded newline.
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> You can observe this if you view the source. (View | Message Source)
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>> This only shows up in the subject line when viewed in the Inbox of 
>> Thunderbird version 1.0.7 (20050923). 
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> Thunderbird 1.5 on Windows displays it fine, though shows a special 
> character at the point where the newline appears.
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>> When I open the email, the subject line appears normally.
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> It appears Thunderbird scrubs the line before it displays the 
> individual message or copies the data to the reply form.
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Tom,

Thanks for writing: I figured that there was _something_ there, but now 
I'm more puzzled than ever. Why would Thunderbird display a control 
character with a miniature "rubber stamp" version of a date? It's 
definitely not a single character I'm seeing: it's a glyph of a date 
with the month on top, the day in the middle, and the year on the 
bottom, and it occupies about 1.5 vertical lines and about 2 character 
widths. If it was a "smiley face" or some other artifiact of the IBM 
character set, I'd understand, but how could a single control character 
be translated into a specific date?

Bill