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Title: email.message_from_string: initial line gets discarded
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Components: Library (Lib) Versions: Python 2.5
process
Status: closed Resolution: invalid
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Assigned To: barry Nosy List: barry, dwebster99, nnorwitz (3)
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Created on 2007-07-12 15:52 by dwebster99, last changed 2007-07-13 21:22 by barry.

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email_tests.py dwebster99, 2007-07-12 15:52 message_from_string bug
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msg32484 - (view) Author: David Webster (dwebster99) Date: 2007-07-12 15:52 
If the first line of the string passed to email.message_from_string starts with whitespace, the line gets discarded. I believe the problem is in the feed parser, but I don't have a test case to prove that. 

The attached file is a short program to illustrate the problem. When I run it I get the output shown below. The line count should be unchanged in both cases. 

leading whitespace :
    Body changed: lines in: 3  lines out: 2
left justified :
    Line count was preserved.

Platform:
  Python 2.5.1
  Windows 2000 SP4
msg32485 - (view) Author: Neal Norwitz (nnorwitz) Date: 2007-07-13 03:48 
Barry, could you take a look?  Thanks.
msg32486 - (view) Author: Barry A. Warsaw (barry) Date: 2007-07-13 21:22 
It is not legal for the first line of text to start with whitespace.  This makes it look like the message begins with a header continuation.

The first line isn't lost, it's tucked away on the resulting message's defect list.  Try printing 'msg.defects[0].line'.
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