Re: Whitespace in headers

[Tom <tom@sdf.com>]

On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, J. S. Connell wrote:

> I've just spent a very frustrating hour or so trying to work out why an
> email autoresponder of mine had stopped working.  In the end I traced it
> back to zmailer changing the space after From:, To:, Subject:, and Date:
> headers into tabs.

  You should fix your autoresponder.  It is broken.

> I realize that the RFC says "whitespace" and not "spaces", but is there a
> way to change this behavior without recompiling?

  No.  The router needs to be rebuilt to do that.  There is a define that
changes this behaviour.

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Tom