MBOX-Line: From tss at iki.fi  Tue Oct 30 10:30:40 2012
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:49 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] significance of leading whitespace in RFC 2822
	unstructured headers
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On 30.10.2012, at 5.07, Bill Shannon wrote:

> One of the reasons I asked here is because of the interaction between
> the syntax of these header fields and what an IMAP server should do
> when parsing the header and returning the parsed value.  The syntax
> would imply that all whitespace after the colon is part of the value
> of the header, but that's not what most/all IMAP servers do, and not
> what the examples show.  Is there something in the IMAP spec that
> says leading whitespace should be removed from these header values?


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