On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 14:47, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 01:04:11PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > > If you include something that matches the delimiter sequence in the > > body of a message, anything writing to mbox format must add > > the > so it isn't interpreted as a delimiter there. If something > > Err, yes. It must mangle the message. This is silly. That's what I'm on > about. I shouldn't have to encode the message text specially to protect it > from your broken mailbox format. I'm not arguing the point that maildir (or Cyrus, or Content-Length:). I'm pointing out that counting on some email recipient to have installed a non-standard mechanism is probably not a good thing. If it matters you must use a standard mechanism to avoid it. Then, since this isn't going to solve the problem in a general sense, is it worth making a change that may break correctly functioning programs that users may have had running for a decade or more? --- Les Mikesell les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx