From: "Kris Deugau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Ralph Seichter wrote:
> > I checked <http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html> for this:
> >
> > 2.2. Header Fields
> > Header fields are lines composed of a field name, followed by a
> > colon (":"), followed by a field body, and terminated by CRLF.
> > A field name MUST be composed of printable US-ASCII characters
> > (i.e., characters that have values between 33 and 126,
^^
> > inclusive), except colon. A field body may be composed of any
> > US-ASCII characters, except for CR and LF. [...]
...
>
> Ah, OK. As a matter of practical readability it would seem that most
> mail software will leave a space between the colon and the content of
> the header - I rarely (if ever) see what seems to be defined as an
> "unstructured field" without that extra whitespace.
The space is not necessary. But zero or more spaces properly are trimmed
off the start of a "Subject:" header before presentation.
{^_^}
