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Date: Mon, 1 Jan 1996 04:36:09 -0800 (PST)
From: Peter Wemm <peter>
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To: gil@limbic.ssdl.com, peter, freebsd-bugs
Subject: Re: misc/922
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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?