Re: definition of signature separator
* Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [01-20-09 17:17]:
> On Tuesday, January 20 at 05:03 PM, quoth Patrick Shanahan:
> >While I have no doubt that you are speaking fact, I have been using
> >mbox (with mutt/procmail/postfix) for > 10 years starting with
> >Mandrake 5.0 and have not experienced mailbox corruption/garbling ever
> >to memory. BUT, I am Irish :^)
>
> HEH, well, it's all a question of how often you have lines that begin
> with From in the middle of a line (and how you define "corruption").
>
> What I've found is that either my editor or mutt simply inserts a
> space in front of From lines, and then as part of format-flowed
> display (I think), mutt removes that space.
>
> But, let's do a test:
>
> >From line
>
> Does the previous line have a > in front of it?
yes :^)
> It didn't when I composed this message (it also didn't have a space in
> front of it either). If it does for you, then technically this message
> has been corrupted.
Then I guess I have probably had a lot of corruption that I didn't
even realize :^). But the posts were not broken apart or grabled as
to be unreadable or unusable.
but the ">" was inserted by procmail,
If there is no Content-Length: field or the -Y option has been
specified and procmail appends to regular mailfolders, any lines in
the body of the mes‐ sage that look like postmarks are prepended
with >' (disarms bogus mailheaders). The regular expression that is
used to search for these postmarks is: \nFrom '
and, in this case should be deamed harmless.
>From a purist standpoint, this is indeed a change (corruption). But
much less so than mailing list software that mangles the "Reply-To:"
header :^) but that is not an mbox problem.
I guess I just do not see a great enough problem to change, but I *am*
getting along in *years*.
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