From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: barton.schaefer@gmail.com (Bart Schaefer) Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 17:16:51 -0800 Subject: [sup-talk] You've got the "From " bug, I'm afraid. In-Reply-To: References: <1225910189-sup-4581@entry> Message-ID: <6bb609560811051716u26bb7e8dtfc215f293140b32b@mail.gmail.com> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Tomas Pospisek ML 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.