Re: The escaped From bugaboo
LuKreme <[email protected]>
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On 14 Jan 2013, at 23:58 , Robert Bonomi <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Subject: Re: The escaped From bugaboo >> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:36:23 -0700 >> To: [email protected] >> >> On 14 Jan 2013, at 10:46 , Robert Bonomi <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Multiple storage format support was added much later. '^From ' >>> escaping is done _long_before_ the 'delivery location' storage format >>> is determined. >> >> Cite? > > for the first statement -- firsthand experience. I used it when it was > 'mbox only'. MH support was added very early, and maildir support was added in 3.14. > For the second, "Use the source, Luke." So it's *not* documented. The only part of the source that seems to deal with escaping the From is formail, and there is quite a lot about how to either escape or not escape 'bogus' from lines. But that makes sense as formal is specifically setup to process mbox files by default. -- Reality is a curve. That's not the problem. The problem is that there isn't as much as there should be. According to some of the more mystical texts in the stacks of the library of Unseen University - (...) - at least nine-tenths of all the original reality ever created lies outside the multiverse, and since the multiverse by definition includes absolutely everything that is anything, this puts a bit of a strain on things. --Moving Pictures