From: rsc@swtch.com (Russ Cox)
Subject: [9fans] Unescaped "From" in mail items
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 03:31:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080720072831.BA0FC1E8C1F@holo.morphisms.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <kgrlk5yeiqg.fsf@w-cl28-g34-c.its.monash.edu.au>
> Date: Tue Feb 5 23:56:46 EST 2008
>
> I've just been archiving a bunch of old email that was sitting in IMAP
> folders on a unix system somewhere into local folders on a plan9 system.
> I used acme mail to access the remote IMAP folder then save the items I
> wanted to local folders.
>
> Some of these have an unescaped "^From" in the text, which seems to have
> caused problems when I've saved them to the local mail folders.
This is acme mail's fault. The easiest fix is to change
/acme/mail/src/mesg.c to do two writes: first use write
to write the header, and then use write2 to write the body
(write2 is in reply.c and knows how to escape From).
You'll probably also want to make write2 return whether
or not it succeeded.
Russ
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-20 7:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-11 8:51 [9fans] 'From' in outgoing mail considered harmful Richard Miller
2008-02-06 5:50 ` [9fans] Unescaped "From" in mail items Adrian Tritschler
2008-02-06 9:57 ` erik quanstrom
2008-07-20 7:31 ` Russ Cox [this message]
2008-07-22 1:21 ` erik quanstrom
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