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Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> It's probably explained somewhere, but I wonder why is it that gnus
> needs to alter the Unix mail format "From " line, when it incorporates
> mail.  

In MH, a message is stored in a file, and the format of that file is
several lines of headers, followed by an empty line, followed by the
body of the message.  It further specifies what a `header' should look
like: either a line consists of a word (the header name), followed by
a colon, followed by the value, or the line is a continuation line and
thus begins with whitespace.

The "From " line does not follow this format.

The nnmh backend uses MH format, and the nnml backend also uses MH
format (plus overview files).

kai
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