On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 09:05:34AM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote:
> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 03:24:38PM +0100, Chris Burdess wrote:
> > I would think that it doesn't actually matter whether mutt does this or
> > not, since any intervening MTAs are free to do this as they want. As
> > long as the result is valid RFC822, header whitespace may be changed or
> > whatever. Only the values are significant.
> 
> I certainly agree. I guess I'm more or less curious why <tab> is being
> replaced by <space>- what the logical argument is. Is the <tab> character
> not a valid character in mail header fields as defined by the RFCs?

There's a lot to wade through, but the answer is here:

  http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/2995

It turns out this is kind of hard to get exactly right.


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