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Re: Content-Length: and Lines: headers



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On Saturday, August 18 at 06:38 PM, quoth Jon:
>I've noticed that whenever Mutt writes out a message (e.g. when 
>saving a message to another directory) it adds a Content-Length: 
>header to the output, and sometimes a Lines: header as well.

Yup.

>Can I turn this behaviour off?

Nope.

>AFAICT these headers are just some hacks for mbox files, but I only 
>use Maildirs.

Yes and no; that's where they originally came from, but they do help 
when calculating things for Maildir messages. For example, why read 
through an entire 2MB email to find out how many lines it has when you 
can just insert a Lines header?

~Kyle
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