A call to read.table(..., sep = "", ...) reads in any length of whitespace 
as the delimiter. On your sample text it read in a 2 column dataframe.
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From:
Ůukasz Rćcůawowicz <lukasz.reclawowicz@gmail.com>
To:
amindlessbrain <jillianrowe91286@gmail.com>
Cc:
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Date:
10/26/2010 09:34 AM
Subject:
Re: [R] Reading in a tab delimitated file
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2010/10/26 amindlessbrain <jillianrowe91286@gmail.com>

>
> (I'm not sure why the disease column isn't showing up as a tab here, but
it
> is sep by "\t" in my file.
>

You've got a double tab space, I don't know is there a prettier way, but
paste this:

pd<-read.delim("new_treat.txt",sep="        ")

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