On Dec 29, 2015, at 2:39 PM, Kevin A. McGrail <kmcgr...@pccc.com> wrote:

> On 12/29/2015 4:29 PM, Philip Prindeville wrote:
>> On Dec 29, 2015, at 2:14 PM, Kevin A. McGrail <kmcgr...@pccc.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 12/29/2015 3:46 PM, Philip Prindeville wrote:
>>>> On Dec 29, 2015, at 1:42 PM, Kevin A. McGrail <kmcgr...@pccc.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 12/29/2015 3:38 PM, Philip Prindeville wrote:
>>>>>> Is there a reason that headers are left with leading spaces?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I’ve noticed that I have to write rules as:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Subject =~ /^ Great [Jj]ob [Oo]pportunity/
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> because of the leading space…
>>>>> I'm at a complete loss.  I add plenty of Subject rules with no leading 
>>>>> space.  Never seen this issue.
>>>> I had some rules which weren’t firing so I had to change to /^ .../ or 
>>>> else /^ ?.../ to make them match.
>>>> 
>>>> Not sure why.
>>>> 
>>>> This is with SA 3.4.1 on Fedora 21.
>>>> 
>>>> -Philip
>>> What's the original Subject header look like from the original mail?
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> KAM
>> 
>> This was a while ago.  I’d have to go back and look.  Maybe this one?
>> 
>> Subject: [IDN][#2056301] CareerBuilder: Open position for you
> OK, I was thinking perhaps an alternate charset or something but never run 
> into this issue.
> 
> If you are anchoring your Subject searches, allowing for whitespace, etc. is 
> a decent idea though from Reindl.
> 
> regards,
> KAM


I did recall that I used the patch here:

https://bz.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6360#c4

to be able to debug my rules, using a rule that would match any non-empty 
subject: value to dump out what it was (the “====> got hit: “…”” line), and it 
was always showing a leading space…

-Philip

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