(Washing Mail): Document the shortcoming of

nnmail-remove-leading-whitespace.

diff --git a/texi/ChangeLog b/texi/ChangeLog
index b87786f..c710173 100644 (file)
--- a/texi/ChangeLog
+++ b/texi/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2002-07-02  Kai Gro\e,b_\e(Bjohann  <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE>
+
+       * gnus.texi (Washing Mail): Document the shortcoming of
+       nnmail-remove-leading-whitespace.
+
 2002-06-30  Kai Gro\e,b_\e(Bjohann  <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE>
 
        * message.texi (News Headers): Include example for removing an

diff --git a/texi/gnus.texi b/texi/gnus.texi
index 4518e27..3ae797e 100644 (file)
--- a/texi/gnus.texi
+++ b/texi/gnus.texi
@@ -13676,6 +13676,12 @@ cleaning up the headers.  Functions that can be used include:
 Clear leading white space that ``helpful'' listservs have added to the
 headers to make them look nice.  Aaah.
 
+(Note that this function works on both the header on the body of all
+messages, so it is a potentially dangerous function to use (if a body
+of a message contains something that looks like a header line).  So
+rather than fix the bug, it is of course the right solution to make it
+into a feature by documenting it.)
+
 @item nnmail-remove-list-identifiers
 @findex nnmail-remove-list-identifiers
 Some list servers add an identifier---for example, @samp{(idm)}---to the