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From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.hb.north.de>
Message-Id: <199601021730.SAA13547@saturn>
To: peter@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject: Re: misc/922
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In article <199601011236.EAA20439@freefall.freebsd.org> you write:
>Synopsis: From line handling incorrect in mail.local
>
>State-Changed-From-To: open-analyzed
>State-Changed-By: peter
>State-Changed-When: Mon Jan 1 04:30:15 PST 1996
>State-Changed-Why: 
>This is actually intended behavior...
>
>The end-of-message marker is a blank line followed by "^From "..
>ie:
>"\n\nFrom "
>
>So, if you have a message like this: (indented for example)
>
>  foo bar baz
>  From this I can see blah..
>
>It should not be escaped because there is not a blank line.
>
>However:
>
>  foo bar baz
>
>  From this I can see blah...
>
>...should be escaped as the mail system cannot distinguish the end-of-msg.
>
>The actual bug is in pine and elm's mailbox decoding.
>
>Perhaps a 'bug compatable' flag for mail.local is needed?
>
Or you can also have sendmail do the escaping (E in LOCAL_MAILER_FLAGS
in your .mc), that is `bug compatable' too.

 maybe a note should be added somewhere in the elm/pine ports?

 greetings from another elm user...
	Juergen