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@ 1999-10-12 11:38 Harry Putnam
1999-10-12 12:05 ` X-From-Line: Kai Großjohann
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From: Harry Putnam @ 1999-10-12 11:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
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.
Then when saving a message to Unix format. Why is a secondary "fake"
one added ("From nobody"), instead of replacing the "X-From-Line: "
characters with "From "?
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1999-10-12 11:38 X-From-Line: Harry Putnam
@ 1999-10-12 12:05 ` Kai Großjohann
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From: Kai Großjohann @ 1999-10-12 12:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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