From: barton.schaefer@gmail.com (Bart Schaefer)
Subject: [sup-talk] You've got the "From " bug, I'm afraid.
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 17:16:51 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6bb609560811051716u26bb7e8dtfc215f293140b32b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <W49eawbv.1225915228.1271020.tpo2@192.168.3.7>
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Tomas Pospisek ML <tpo2 at sourcepole.ch> wrote:
>
> Apparently (al)pine doesn't quote, when there's not _an empty line_
> before the "From" line. [1] seems to provide a little bit of a meager
> reference.
Pine and by inheritance alpine have a very strict view of what
constitutes valid syntax for the line that begins a new message in
mbox format. It has to have the email address in the correct place,
the date has to be in the correct format, etc., or it doesn't count.
I believe it has a configuration option for whether it sticks a ">" in
front of lines that begin with "From " but don't have the entire
correct layout.
Other email clients have a much more liberal notion of what
constitutes a so-called From_ line. Mush/Z-Mail, the email clients
that I used to work on (as in, write the C code for) 15 years ago,
would accept a fairly wide variety of formats, but they all had to
have an address and something resembling a date.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-06 1:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-30 3:41 Robin Lee Powell
2008-11-05 18:40 ` William Morgan
2008-11-05 20:00 ` Tomas Pospisek ML
2008-11-06 1:16 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2008-11-06 1:50 ` Tomas Pospisek ML
2008-11-06 11:21 ` Bart Schaefer
2008-11-10 3:58 ` William Morgan
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