From: Mark Eichin <eichin@cygnus.com>
Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no
Subject: Re: Gnus, movemail, POP3, trailing empty lines
Date: 09 Feb 1997 17:21:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xe17mkhvcws.fsf@maneki-neko.cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Rich Pieri's message of 09 Feb 1997 11:19:26 -0500
> Let's try that again: tell me, how does this algorithm know that a given
> quoted "From " line in the body of the message is one that should be
I think what you're missing is that you *don't* just quote ^From
lines, you also quote ^>From, iteratively... you have to, it's the
only way to do it reliably. So, (xx inserted so the example doesn't
get mangled)
xxFrom
xx>From
xx>>From
in an actual *message* gets stored as
xx>From
xx>>From
xx>>>From
and then the MTA before displaying it strips one > from any >*From
line (that's a regexp "kleene" * not a glob *) yielding
xxFrom
xx>From
xx>>From
That's the Right Way(tm) to quote From lines. I've *never* seen a
mailer actually do that; they all corrupt messages instead, taking
only any xxFrom and making it xx>From, then any xx>From and making
xxFrom even if it wasn't one it converted.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-02-09 22:21 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 [this message]
1997-02-10 4:44 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-02-10 4:45 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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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