In the Debian/Ubuntu setup for perdition, there is /etc/perdition/perdition.conf and there is also /etc/default/perdition which gets dotted into /etc/init.d/perdition. I'm running all of pop3, pop3s, imap4, and imap4s modes. Most of the config info is the same, so I did that in perdition.conf. That leaves me with pretty short command line options to set separately in /etc/default/perdition. So far, so good. I'm trying to set imap_capability for imap4/imap4s and pop_capability for pop3/pop3s. By trial and error, I have figured out that those two names are just synonyms in perdition.conf, so I can't set them both there. Fine, I'll just set them differently in /etc/default/perdition. Alas, the embedded spaces are driving me a little crazy. Has anyone worked out the combination of quote marks, backslashes, and other shell magic to get things interpreted correctly by the time it gets interpreted by the init script? (I know I can just use different config files for the different protocols, which is what I will do if I don't find some other solution. I'd just rather avoid the redundancy if there is some other answer.)