From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 2 15:49:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA22129 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 15:49:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (root@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA22121 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 15:49:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from campa.panke.de (anonymous213.ppp.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.213]) by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.6.13/8.6.12) with ESMTP id AAA23044; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 00:27:17 +0100 Received: (from wosch@localhost) by campa.panke.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) id AAA00812; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 00:19:31 +0100 Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 00:19:31 +0100 From: Wolfram Schneider Message-Id: <199612022319.AAA00812@campa.panke.de> To: Terry Lambert Cc: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Inferno for FreeBSD. In-Reply-To: <199612021841.LAA10946@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <199612021141.MAA00264@campa.panke.de> <199612021841.LAA10946@phaeton.artisoft.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert writes: >The problem is purely in the mailbox storage interface. Yes, and the question is which hack for badly written mail clients has fewer side effects? 1) ">From " destroy LaTeX documents 2) " From " is harmless, because most parser ignore spaces 3) quoted-printable does not hurt the mail body >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. No, the conversion is from "\nFrom " to "\n>From ", whithout colon. Simple test: # conversion $ echo From fusel | mail terry@lambert.org # no conversion $ (echo alohol;echo From fusel) | mail terry@lambert.org $ echo From: fusel | mail terry@lambert.org Wolfram