Re: Gnus, movemail, POP3, trailing empty lines

[Randal Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>]

>>>>> "Per" == Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:

Per> Rich Pieri <rich.pieri@PrescientTech.com> writes:

>> So tell me, how does this algorithm know that a given quoted "From "
>> line in the body of the message is one that should be dequoted?

Per> Yes.  They all should, if created by the algorithm above.  This leads
Per> to zero loss of information, unlike the traditional algorithm.

Huh?  What if my *original* message just happened to have ">From " in one
of the lines?  You've now turned it into "From ".

There is *no* way to get both "From " and ">From " safely from the
original message all the way to the end user, if "From " is also the
intermessage delimiter.  So, you must compromise on one or the other.

Most MUAs that I've seen turn "From " into ">From ", and then leave it
alone.  That seems reasonable, but it may just be that it's
particularly familiar.

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