On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 10:57:31AM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > > Sadly, not so. What character to you see at the the front of this next line? > > >From is used as the delimiter in mbox. > > There is a blank line past the end of the previous messge; the current > message starts with > From Clearly it got mangled at some step along the way, because look in the quoted lines above -- there's an extra >. And same here: > > And it can't tell the difference between From to start a new message and > > >From because I happened to start a line that way. And worse, this mangling > > is irreversible -- it's very possible that a quoted line in the body [...] > Text has always been subject to various transformations by email > transports. That's one of them. If you need to avoid transformations > there have been various means of encoding available for nearly as > many years as email has existed. This isn't encoding; it's mangling. And it should be stopped. And stopping using mbox is the way to stop it. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
