Re: ReRe: mutt mbox format for new mailboxes: mutt mbox format for new mailboxes

Kurt Hackenberg <[email protected]> Fri, 16 May 2025 15:23:12 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.mail.mutt.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 02:09:16PM -0500, Tim Chase wrote:

>And if program Y "properly" escapes them when storing
>(indenting again):
>
>  >From me with no prefix
>  >>From me with one prefix
>  >>>From me with two prefixes
>  >>>>From me with three prefixes
>
>program X will only un-mung the first one (correctly(ish)) but fail
>to unmung the other three, introducing new ">" characters that
>weren't in the original message.

Only the Rahul Dhesi variant of mbox "properly" escapes things as 
above. Only the Rahul Dhesi variant unmungs anything.