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Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:

  > * Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE  on Tue, 30 Mar 1999
  > | Then pop3.el assumes such a file has been involved and just concatenates
  > | the messages retrieved from the POP server.  IMHO this is wrong -- the
  > | program converting to mbox format should take care of escaping From_
  > | lines if necessary.
  > 
  > Read the POP3 specifications.  POP clients perform no modification to the
  > mail spool or messages retrieved from it.  Or if they do, they do as little
  > as possible.

Again: there is nothing that says that the POP server should output
escaped From_ lines when given the RETR command, right?  The From_
lines must be escaped when pop3.el outputs mbox format, though.  So
pop3.el must escape the From_ lines.

(Modulo the presence of Content-Length headers or stuff like that.)

kai
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