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Re: formail splitting problem

1998-09-02 09:08:42
On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Stan Ryckman wrote:

Since messages may contain other messages (including "From " lines), this
necessitates some sort of contortion to handle this.  This includes
single-message-per-file (e.g., mh) storage, keeping an external index
of stored messages (e.g., Eudora), or using "From " lines as
the delimiter in conjunction with at least one of (1) escaping "From "
lines within the message as ">From " or (2) adding a Content-Length:
or Lines: header.

IIRC, MIME adds explicit message delimiters, ^A^A^A^A before and after
each message: 

 ^A^A^A^A
 From nobody_important(_at_)who(_dot_)cares(_dot_)com
 ...
 blahblahblah
 last-line-of-message
 ^A^A^A^A
 ^A^A^A^A
 From billg(_at_)microsopht(_dot_)com
 ...
 end-of-message
 ^A^A^A^A


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