--On Friday, August 05, 2005 6:03 PM -0700 Loren Wilton
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think a lot of mail/news programs assume that the subject body starts
immediately after "Subject: ", unless the character immediately after the
colon isn't a space, in which case the subject starts there.
However, some software treats runs of whitespace as a single space. For
instance, the Dovecot IMAP server collapses multiple spaces when returning
a list of subjects, and this screws up sorting of subjects if you're using
space-padding in the spam score prefixed to the SA report subject line,
like "(Spam: 5.0)", which might sort after "(Spam: 10.0)" after the extra
space is squeezed out. For that reason I use zero-padding in my SA config.
Note that squeezing out excess spaces is permitted in the IMAP standard, so
Dovecot is staying within the standard doing this.
