Re: [exim-dev] Changing received_header_text default?

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Author: Casey Allen Shobe
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To: exim-dev
CC: Michael Haardt
Subject: Re: [exim-dev] Changing received_header_text default?
On Wednesday 01 March 2006 14:04, Michael Haardt wrote:
> I am unable to find which MTAs use spaces for folding, but I am sure to
> have seen it.


Qmail uses spaces:

Received: (qmail 17490 invoked from network); 1 Mar 2006 14:04:54 -0000
Received: from sesame.csx.cam.ac.uk (131.111.8.41)
  by spieden.seattleserver.com with SMTP; 1 Mar 2006 14:04:54 -0000
Received: from [::1] (port=4707 helo=sesame.csx.cam.ac.uk)
    by sesame.csx.cam.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.44)
    id 1FERwc-0004us-8i; Wed, 01 Mar 2006 14:04:46 +0000


...but two spaces hardly seems any better than a single tab if excess
whitespace is not removed when defolding.

> Concerning "look ugly"


I don't find either looks any better or worse than the other on it's own, but
inconsistancy as shown above looks like crap.

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