[Patches] Unix Mailboxes don't work quite right.

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Sun, 18 Jun 2000 15:26:20 -0500


> Because every sequence of "\nFrom " starts a new message as far as
> every mailer I've ever seen is concerned.  If a line of text actually
> started with "From", then it is supposed to be escaped with a ">" so
> as to avoid confusing it with a from line.

That's "\n\nFrom ", actually, and "From " at the start of the file
also counts.

In the past I've seen mailers that only added the ">" to From lines
that looked somewhat like dates, and this is probably why I put that
regular expression in there.  But I agree with the quoted Mozilla
guideline that therein lies madness.

That's a +999 for the patch, I guess. :-)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)