From: "Kenneth Porter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> --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.
Don't use spaces for that. Use the leading zeros. "_SCORE(00)_" gives you
a three digit WITH leading zeros if necessary score output. That sorts
nicely.
{^_-}
