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29.1; MH-E forwarded email has a mangled default Subject header

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From: Bill Wohler <wohler <at> newt.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Chris Siebenmann <cks.emacsbugs-01 <at> cs.toronto.edu>, Mike Kupfer <kupfer <at> rawbw.com>, 67360 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#67360: 29.1; MH-E forwarded email has a mangled default Subject header
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2023 08:44:40 -0800

Eli,

Would you prefer that I apply Mike's patch to emacs-29 or master?

> diff --git a/lisp/mh-e/mh-comp.el b/lisp/mh-e/mh-comp.el
> index 92d31bf1826..0d1dcdf626a 100644
> --- a/lisp/mh-e/mh-comp.el
> +++ b/lisp/mh-e/mh-comp.el
> @@ -574,7 +574,7 @@ mh-forward
>          (setq orig-subject (mh-get-header-field "Subject:")))
>        (let ((forw-subject
>               (mh-forwarded-letter-subject orig-from orig-subject)))
> -        (mh-insert-fields "Subject:" forw-subject)
> +        (mh-modify-header-field "Subject" forw-subject t)
>          (goto-char (point-min))
>          ;; Set the local value of mh-mail-header-separator according to what is
>          ;; present in the buffer...
-- 
Bill Wohler <wohler <at> newt.com> aka <Bill.Wohler <at> nasa.gov>
http://www.newt.com/wohler/, GnuPG ID:610BD9AD

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