Re: [Evolution] SpamAssassin with Evolution

[Peter Williams <peterw ximian com>]

On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 11:35, David Woodhouse wrote:
> Not quite what was required. That X-Spam-Report: header used to be
> readable. I get something similar, even if I select 'Show Email Source':
>
> X-Spam-Report: Detailed Report SPAM: -------------------- Start
>         SpamAssassin results ---------------------- SPAM: This mail is probably
>         spam.  The original message has been altered SPAM: so you can recognise or
>         block similar unwanted mail in future. SPAM: See
>         http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. SPAM:  SPAM: Content
>
>
> Viewing the offending mail in pine shows that it's definitely Evolution
> which is corrupting it. It should look like this...

Evolution is technically doing the correct thing here. RFC822 specifies
that the leading whitespace in a multiline email header should be
considered equivalent to a single space. The mailer collapses the spaces
in its internal representation of emails. In this case it happens to
mess up the formatting, but they're really relying on behavior that's
not guaranteed.

Peter

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