[Alpine-info] weird behavior in saving messages from one folder to another

[Benjamin R. Haskell]

On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:


> On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, Sean C. Farley wrote:

> 

> > I am hijacking this thread to ask a question about the subject line. 

> > In the past, I had asked why I was seeing extra space between words in 

> > the subject.  I was told that it was due to some MUA's improperly 

> > indenting the continuation of a subject line with more than a single 

> > space.  This is the standard.

> >

> > However, this E-mail I received also has more than a single space, yet 

> > it was produced by Alpine.  Here are some of the headers:

> 

> Not necessarily MUA's. Sometimes MTA's. The list processing software is 

> the guilty party here, I believe. (This is a Mailman list, right?)

> 

> Best,

> Ben


And, indeed, my Bcc:'ed copy of that message contains:

Subject: Re: [Alpine-info] weird behavior in saving messages from one folder
  to another
(space at the front of the continued header)

whereas the copy from the list contains:

Subject: Re: [Alpine-info] weird behavior in saving messages from one folder
     to another
(tab at the front of the continued header)