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From: barton.schaefer@gmail.com (Bart Schaefer)
Subject: [sup-talk] You've got the "From " bug, I'm afraid.
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 03:21:32 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6bb609560811060321m61dc3f6by5cf603c406980628@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <G7u3qtTP.1225936221.0933950.tpo2@192.168.3.7>

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Tomas Pospisek ML <tpo2 at sourcepole.ch> wrote:
>
> Possibly (al)pine is following RFC 4155, that describes how the "From"
> delimiter should look like down in Appendix A... ?

Given the history, I think it's equally likely that RFC 4155 follows
Pine. :-)  The original mbox driver from the UW c-client package
predates that RFC by nearly 20 years.  4155 is a case of documenting
folklore so that newcomers don't have to learn it by hearsay.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-06 11:21 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
2008-11-06  1:50       ` Tomas Pospisek ML
2008-11-06 11:21         ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2008-11-10  3:58           ` William Morgan

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