[Dovecot] Mailbox written with normalized headers

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun Aug 14 22:14:30 EEST 2005


On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 20:51 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> Over on the SpamAssassin list someone noted that some spam generators add 
> leading spaces to the subject line, but it was impossible to detect this 
> when using Dovecot for POP3 service. Some quick testing shows that 
> dovecot-0.99.13-4.FC2 writes the mailbox back with the extra spaces in the 
> header squeezed out. I think Dovecot should avoid reformatting headers any 
> more than necessary to avoid interfering with spam detectors.

Right. 0.99.x's mbox code behaves this way. 1.0-stable/test releases
don't do it anymore.

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