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.
 

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