Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 00:19:31 +0100 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Inferno for FreeBSD. Message-ID: <199612022319.AAA00812@campa.panke.de> In-Reply-To: <199612021841.LAA10946@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <199612021141.MAA00264@campa.panke.de> <199612021841.LAA10946@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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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
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