Re: mutt mbox format for new mailboxes

Kurt Hackenberg <[email protected]> Fri, 16 May 2025 15:33:39 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.mail.mutt.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 04:30:53PM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:

>I assume the "Content-Length" (and possibly also "Lines"?) was, as 
>Kurt suggests, a way of efficiently reading emails out of a larger mbox file.

No. It was invented so it wouldn't have to do ">From " escaping, which 
damages messages.