From: "Kenneth Porter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --On Saturday, August 06, 2005 3:23 AM -0700 jdow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Tells me that dovecot normalizes headers to include exactly one space. > > (I did a little more testing with zero spaces squeezed through procmail > > to my mail folder. It came through that just fine. But it lost the > > customized spacing in dovecot.) > > By that I assume you mean that the Subject returned by an IMAP header > command is normalized. I would expect that Dovecot delivers the headers > unchanged when you ask for the whole message. An IMAP client would > typically use the result of the header command for message list display. > What it uses for per-message display could be either, but I'd probably use > the result of the header command since it's already parsed out of the body > by the server and I don't have to do extra work to extract it.
By that I meant that "telnet localhost pop3" followed by an "retr 1" (once logged in) showed the spaces normalized to exactly one in all cases. {^_^}