Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 11:41:51 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfram Schneider) Cc: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Inferno for FreeBSD. Message-ID: <199612021841.LAA10946@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199612021141.MAA00264@campa.panke.de> from "Wolfram Schneider" at Dec 2, 96 12:41:19 pm
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> >According to Wolfram Schneider: > >> Why we use a ">" and not a space or tab? A ">" may destroy > >> latex documents (see UNIX-HATERS handbook page 79-81). > >There are several ways to handle it: > >1. use "quoted-printable" as C-T-E: and =46 in place of "F", > > I vote for 1. It works for all mail clients and does not > destroy the mail body. It is not the MTA that screws this up. The problem is purely in the mailbox storage interface. The "From:" -> ">From:" conversion is a convenience for bad mailbox storage formats for evil MUA's which expect to access the mail through direct access to the mailbox, and then bogusly use the "From:" to demark message boundries. This is a nasty thing for them to do, since there is no exterior encapsulation of the messages as independent objects onces they are in the mailbox. If the MUA *must* do this, then an MTA that delivers everything into one huge file should change C-T-E:, as described above. (Bleah!). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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