From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: barton.schaefer@gmail.com (Bart Schaefer)
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 03:21:32 -0800
Subject: [sup-talk] You've got the "From " bug, I'm afraid.
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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.