From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tpo2@sourcepole.ch (Tomas Pospisek ML) Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:00:28 +0000 Subject: [sup-talk] You've got the "From " bug, I'm afraid. In-Reply-To: <1225910189-sup-4581@entry> Message-ID: On 11/5/2008, "William Morgan" wrote: >Reformatted excerpts from Robin Lee Powell's message of 2008-10-29: >> I'm trying out sup, coming from mutt, and I've hit what is, for me, >> a show-stopper bug. >> >> sup things that the line: >> >> From bob: >> >> starts a new mail in mbox files. >> >> I put lines like that all over the place in my mails. > >Do those lines actually occur raw in the mbox files? Because this is >the standard, well-known mbox design flaw, but the solution is typically >for clients to write ">From" instead of "From " when adding messages to >the mbox. > >If mutt writes those lines raw, then Sup may have to be more heuristic >in my mbox scanning. OTOH, we've had a large number of Sup users who >come from mutt (including me!), and I think you're the first who's >complained of this. I'm coming from (al)pine and alpine. There actually is a line like this in the raw mbox: ---------------- blablabla >From bla bli blu bla bla bla ---------------- 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. *t [1] http://qmail.org/qmail-manual-html/man5/mbox.html