Mail.app adding double spaces

Recently Mail.app has started to replace some single sword spaces in plain-text e-mails with double spaces. I ran some tests and it seems to occur at regular intervals. Every 60+ characters, Mail.app adds a double space between words instead of a single one.
Every message shows up correctly in the "Sent" folder but when I check Hotmail, for example, there are suddenly double spaces popping up here and there. I've checked my e-mail on university campus with another e-mail client (Horde) and it also displayed double spaces every 60 characters or so.
I've tried another POP-account and the problem persisted. I've trashed the Mail.app .plist and the problem is still there. I've looked at every setting in the "Preferences" menu and the problem is still present.
I don't have the first clue what is wrong or how to fix this.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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I believe I have a fix; this at least worked for me on both machines (home and work) that were exhibiting this issue:
Quit Mail and Safari (the latter may be voodoo on my part, but why not?)
Open Users -> <username> -> Library -> Mail -> V2 -> MailData (In OS X 10.8, the easy shortcut to the Library folder, which is hidden, is to hold down the Option key and click on the Go menu in the Finder; it'll appear as an option without a keyboard shortcut.)
Move all files with names that begin "Envelope Index" to the Trash. I had three such files.
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