Re: (no subject)

Sam Varshavchik <[email protected]> Fri, 03 Jul 2015 08:09:56 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.maildrop
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Christian Ebert writes:

> * Sam Varshavchik on Thursday, July 02, 2015 at 19:48:16 -0400
> > Christian Ebert writes:
> >> * Sam Varshavchik on Thursday, July 02, 2015 at 06:58:34 -0400
> >>> Yes. maildrop never needed the From line.
> >>
> >> AFAIK it's needed for mbox to avoid confusion with the message
> >> separator. But maildrop doesn't do mbox, or does it?
> >
> > maildrop does deliver to mbox files, and it will write a proper
> > message separator line.
>
> Yes, but what happens if a message contains something like
>
> >From [email protected] Sun Mar 23 12:22:01 2014
>
> in the message body? I thought that was the prepending of > in
> the body for. From man 5 mbox:
>
> In order to avoid misinterpretation of lines in message bodies
> which begin with the four characters "From", followed  by a space
> character, the mail delivery agent must quote any occurrence of
> "From " at the start of a body line.

Yes, maildrop will do that as well.

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