Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 17:06:29 -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: <199612020006.RAA09473@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199612011308.OAA03585@campa.panke.de> from "Wolfram Schneider" at Dec 1, 96 02:08:06 pm
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> Ollivier Robert writes:
> >No, your MTA doesn't add ">" in from of the "From " line in Chuck's message
> >and when Net$crap read it, it assumed it was another message. I received it
> >fine.
>
> Why we use a ">" and not a space or tab? A ">" may destroy
> latex documents (see UNIX-HATERS handbook page 79-81).
It won't if they are in the message body (See RFC822 line folding and
header identification).
The first unfolded line not containing a non-white-space containing
token followed immediately by a colon (':') demarks the line between
text body and text header in an RFC822 message object.
If you aren't seeing this, then your mail reader is bogus.
If you are running into unencapsulated bod that looks like data...
well, your mailbox format is bogus.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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