[Bug 150548] New: handling of missing subject header

[M.]

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           Summary: handling of missing subject header
           Product: kmail
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Ubuntu Packages
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kdepim-bugs kde org
        ReportedBy: m angstalt de


Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.6)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

dear kmail development team,

this feature request is intended to be some kind of a thank you at the same time. i've been using kmail since early 1.x versions of kde, and am very pleased with its development. my sticking to it over the years might prove that point. so i've decided to give kmail the honours of becoming a core component in a humble web art experiment of my own. it started during the night from september 30th to october 1st 2007. i'll describe it briefly, so you can replicate the problem, and because it's important to understand my feature request.

essentially, and not very surprising, i sent mails to a selected group of people [i'll not disclose who they are, but in different ways, they are special to me, that should suffice and is an important part of it all]. these mails were sent in a distinct choreography and all prepared with a special subject line. in the mail body, they were all informed that by receiving this mail they have just become part in a web art project, and invited to visit a blog entry (that was yet to be written). actually, each mail's subject was a verse: after i sent all mails, i made a screenshot of the mail folder, where now all of these mails together formed a poem i wrote for this occasion. to have verse indents where they ought to be i replied to earlier mails and used kmail's grouped mail display. since i replaced the adressant's names with the poem's title ("sehnen, scheiden"), i could use the filter feature to show only the poem. i'll spare you the philosophical implications of connecting all these persons through a mail folder... but this is probably the first time ever a poem was composed and published in this way.

now the feature i missed: the poem needed space between certain verses. but leaving the subject empty results in a "no subject" display, which is not quite useful when you (mis)use kmail to compose poetry. this time, i replaced blank lines with the pipe symbol (which was fine, actually, as it leads to new interpretations and the finding, that even empty spaces carry meaning). but for future projects, and speaking for all those desperate poets out there, a certain "poetic subject line display feature" would be adorable, where kmail leaves missing subject lines plain empty ;-)

enough said, see for yourselves:
 o http://angstalt.de/bilder/m/sehnen_scheiden_gross.png
 o http://mblog.angstalt.de/mblog/pivot/entry.php?id=24
   (the original blog entry)

the picture below, btw, is an answer to one of those mails: two paintings from the very same day, painted someplace else on the world. if you don't speak german and can't read the poem, just have a look at these paintings, because they "show" exactly what my words said.

thank you all very much -- you're connecting people. what in all life is more important?

[and yes, i am very much aware that this wishlist item might not receive a high priority treatment...]