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From: asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren)
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Gnus capitalizes non-header "from"
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 17:00:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8760acvoj9.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87po8li0cw.fsf@grothesque.org>

Christoph writes:

> I did some more systematic tests.  The mangling is visible in the
> locally saved version of the message, so it's definitely caused locally.

What format do you use for your sent messages folder? nnfolder?

> The problem does *not* occur if I do not sign the message!  It *does*
> occur when the message is signed either with an OpenPGP or with an
> S/MIME key.

Aha. Maybe that is to avoid the lines starting with "[Ff]rom " being
(potentially) mangled after signing, leaving the signature invalid.

> It's not a new problem, I remember seeing it for the first time years
> ago.

Yeah, mbox has used "From " as the separator for decades.


  Best regards,

    Adam

-- 
 "It's not denial. I'm just very selective about the          Adam Sjøgren
  reality I accept."                                     asjo@koldfront.dk


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  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-14 16:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-13 15:44 Christoph Groth
2017-11-13 16:32 ` Adam Sjøgren
2017-11-14  0:57   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-11-14  7:38     ` Adam Sjøgren
2017-11-14 11:08       ` Christoph Groth
2017-11-14 16:00         ` Adam Sjøgren [this message]
2017-11-14 19:13           ` Christoph Groth
2017-11-14 19:19             ` Adam Sjøgren
2017-11-14 19:47               ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-11-14 16:13       ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-11-14  8:10     ` Lars-Johan Liman
2017-11-14 11:26       ` Christoph Groth
2017-11-15 19:56     ` Eric Abrahamsen

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