Broken MUAs, Pine and The Bat!

Jim Osborn <[email protected]> Fri, 15 Aug 2003 16:51:27 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.mail.smartlist.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Here's a FWIW: after a bit more poking around, I've confirmed that
MUAs Pine on Linux and The Bat! on MSWindows confuse a long
series of dashes with the ^--boundary--$ string that is the end
of the digest.  I've submitted a bug report to the Pine folks
at the University of Washington, and maybe someday they'll fix it.
One of my digest readers has submitted a report to The Bat! folks.

In the meantime, I've added a workaround recipe to my digest's
rc.local.s10 file that should prevent those buggy mailers from
truncating my digests.

#
#Quote long dashed lines, for broken MUAs
#
:0 B
* ^-------------------------------+
{
    MID=`formail -x Message-ID`
    LOG="article $MID: dashes escaped for broken MUAs
"
    :0 fwb
    | sed 's/^-------------------------------/- &/'
}