On 2 September 1998, John D. Hardin <jhardin(_at_)wolfenet(_dot_)com> wrote:
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:
[...]
Minor naming correction: that's MMDF, not MIME (and it appears to be
an almost extinct format these days).
Regards,
Liviu
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