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Re: PARP ::was::::Re: procmail abandonded?

2012-05-27 22:59:31
On May 27, 2012, at 18:03, Robert Bonomi 
<bonomi(_at_)mail(_dot_)r-bonomi(_dot_)com> wrote:
What is that  'mysterious' bug?  If you're referring to procmail inserting
a '>' at the beginning of a line starting with 'From ', it is not a bug.
Quite the contrary, it is a _documented_ feature. 'Classical' mailreaders 
took a line starting with 'From ' as the _start_ of a message.  Therefore,
procmail intentionally 'quotes' such a line in a message body, so that
mail clients will not be mislead into thinking this is the start of a new
message.

It's not supposed to escape the line unless you are saving to a mbox file, but 
it does it seemingly at random when writing to maildirs.


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