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Re: The escaped From bugaboo

2013-01-15 11:45:41

On 14 Jan 2013, at 23:58 , Robert Bonomi 
<bonomi(_at_)mail(_dot_)r-bonomi(_dot_)com> wrote:


Subject: Re: The escaped From bugaboo
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:36:23 -0700
To: procmail(_at_)lists(_dot_)rwth-aachen(_dot_)de

On 14 Jan 2013, at 10:46 , Robert Bonomi 
<bonomi(_at_)mail(_dot_)r-bonomi(_dot_)com> 
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.

The only part of the source that seems to deal with escaping the From is 
formail, and there is quite a lot about how to either escape or not escape 
'bogus' from lines. But that makes sense as formal is specifically setup to 
process mbox files by default.
 

-- 
Reality is a curve.  That's not the problem. The problem is that there
isn't as much as there should be. According to some of the more mystical
texts in the stacks of the library of Unseen University - (...) - at
least nine-tenths of all the original reality ever created lies outside
the multiverse, and since the multiverse by definition includes
absolutely everything that is anything, this puts a bit of a strain on
things. --Moving Pictures


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