From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>
Subject: Re: Gnus, movemail, POP3, trailing empty lines
Date: 10 Feb 1997 05:45:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2u3nlb76p.fsf@proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: visigoth@naiad.fac.cs.cmu.edu's message of 08 Feb 1997 06:50:06 -0500
visigoth@naiad.fac.cs.cmu.edu writes:
> It's my belief, that regardless of what any standard says, Gnus should
> accept messages in this broken format. Remember: the goal is to
> accept as many formats as possible, even if they're broken, and to
> produce only correct output.
>
> >From ...
> some stuff
> >From this line is in the message, not a new one
> some more stuff
>
> should never be generated as an mbox file, unless Content-Length is
> included in the file, because From lines are quoted with >. This is
> *not* ambiguous. The above can only be generated by two sequential
> messages.
Uhm... But the problem is that "From " lines in some mboxes *aren't*
quoted.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-02-10 4:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-02-03 15:24 Kai Grossjohann
1997-02-03 16:36 ` Rich Pieri
1997-02-03 20:01 ` visigoth
1997-02-04 0:50 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-02-04 12:05 ` Kai Grossjohann
1997-02-04 13:03 ` Bernard.Steiner
1997-02-04 13:10 ` Per Abrahamsen
1997-02-04 13:43 ` Kai Grossjohann
1997-02-04 14:41 ` Bernard.Steiner
1997-02-04 15:23 ` Rich Pieri
1997-02-04 15:31 ` Kai Grossjohann
1997-02-04 10:14 ` dave edmondson
1997-02-04 14:52 ` Rich Pieri
1997-02-05 22:40 ` Michael Huehne
1997-02-05 10:47 ` Kai Grossjohann
1997-02-08 9:25 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-02-08 11:50 ` visigoth
1997-02-08 12:32 ` Per Abrahamsen
1997-02-08 16:08 ` Frank D. Cringle
1997-02-08 19:11 ` Steven L Baur
1997-02-09 2:58 ` Rich Pieri
1997-02-09 9:34 ` Per Abrahamsen
1997-02-09 14:56 ` Randal Schwartz
1997-02-09 15:32 ` mbox quoting (was: Re: Gnus, movemail, POP3, trailing empty lines) Per Abrahamsen
1997-02-10 14:52 ` Rich Pieri
1997-02-10 15:30 ` Per Abrahamsen
1997-02-10 15:45 ` Lars Balker Rasmussen
1997-02-11 9:25 ` Greg Stark
1997-02-11 11:36 ` Per Abrahamsen
1997-02-11 12:52 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-02-11 13:44 ` Per Abrahamsen
1997-02-11 18:43 ` Sudish Joseph
1997-02-12 7:35 ` Per Abrahamsen
1997-02-12 12:52 ` Randal Schwartz
1997-02-12 8:47 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-02-11 12:57 ` Randal Schwartz
1997-02-11 13:28 ` Per Abrahamsen
1997-02-11 13:33 ` Randal Schwartz
1997-02-11 14:16 ` Per Abrahamsen
1997-02-11 16:13 ` Rich Pieri
1997-02-12 7:28 ` Per Abrahamsen
1997-02-11 15:00 ` Rich Pieri
1997-02-09 16:19 ` Gnus, movemail, POP3, trailing empty lines Rich Pieri
1997-02-09 22:21 ` Mark Eichin
1997-02-10 4:44 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-02-10 4:45 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
1997-02-10 8:05 ` visigoth
1997-02-11 12:38 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-02-03 23:48 St. Suika Fenderson Roberts
1997-02-04 1:59 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-02-04 3:22 ` Jason L Tibbitts III
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