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From: tpo2@sourcepole.ch (Tomas Pospisek ML)
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 01:50:21 +0000
Subject: [sup-talk] You've got the "From " bug, I'm afraid.
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On 11/6/2008, "Bart Schaefer" <barton.schaefer at gmail.com> wrote:

>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.

Possibly (al)pine is following RFC 4155, that describes how the "From"
delimiter should look like down in Appendix A... ?
*t