Re: The escaped From bugaboo

Robert Bonomi <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.procmail
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: The escaped From bugaboo
> From: LuKreme <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:45:21 -0700
>
> 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.

You misunderstood. The _sequence_of_processing_ is what you have to look in
the source to determine.  WHAT happens is documented -- for _when_ it occurs
one must check the source.

> The only part of the source that seems to deal with escaping the From is 
> formail...

Well, then, obviously, it isn't happening! 
You can disregard everything in this thread,
including the initial report.    <grin>
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