diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e30c49ba6..db39911ff 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
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 Version 6.4.3  [V6-STABLE] 2012-??-??
+- change lumberjack cookie to "@cee" from "@cee "
+  CEE originally specified the cookie with SP, whereas other lumberjack
+  tools used it without space. In order to keep interop with lumberjack,
+  we now use the cookie without space as well. I hope this can be changed
+  in CEE as well when it is released at a later time.
+  Thanks to Miloslav Trmač for pointing this out and a similiar v7 patch.
 - bugfix: comments inside objects (e.g. action()) were not properly handled
 - bugfix: sysklogd-emulating standard template was no longer present in v6
   This was obviously lost during the transition to the new config format.
diff --git a/plugins/mmjsonparse/mmjsonparse.c b/plugins/mmjsonparse/mmjsonparse.c
index 03147b591..111ecc2fb 100644
--- a/plugins/mmjsonparse/mmjsonparse.c
+++ b/plugins/mmjsonparse/mmjsonparse.c
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ BEGINtryResume
 CODESTARTtryResume
 ENDtryResume
 
-#define COOKIE "@cee: "
+#define COOKIE "@cee:"
 #define LEN_COOKIE (sizeof(COOKIE)-1)
 BEGINdoAction
 	msg_t *pMsg;