From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#13328: 24.2; Rmail does not properly decode MIME messages containing "From " lines or save such attachments correctly Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2020 21:54:22 +0200 Message-ID: <83ft4iaexd.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8738ykvb8s.fsf@foil.strangled.net> <87y2iapwan.fsf@gnus.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="21299"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: mdl@alum.mit.edu, 13328@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 06 20:55:27 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1km07y-0005Su-N0 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 06 Dec 2020 20:55:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44066 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1km07x-00041j-PI for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 06 Dec 2020 14:55:25 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53498) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1km07a-00041X-Cu for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Dec 2020 14:55:02 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:39848) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1km07a-0004NS-3x for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Dec 2020 14:55:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1km07a-0005I3-3Q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Dec 2020 14:55:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2020 19:55:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 13328 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 13328-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B13328.160728448220307 (code B ref 13328); Sun, 06 Dec 2020 19:55:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 13328) by debbugs.gnu.org; 6 Dec 2020 19:54:42 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51394 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1km07G-0005HT-HG for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 06 Dec 2020 14:54:42 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:35260) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1km07E-0005HG-IR for 13328@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 06 Dec 2020 14:54:41 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41592) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1km078-0004EU-Ub; Sun, 06 Dec 2020 14:54:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4463 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1km077-0003SS-Vc; Sun, 06 Dec 2020 14:54:34 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87y2iapwan.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sun, 06 Dec 2020 20:30:08 +0100) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:195168 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2020 20:30:08 +0100 > Cc: 13328@debbugs.gnu.org > > Furthermore, it's really uncommon for anything to prepend a ">" when the > line starts with ">From ". > > So I think the bug here is that it does the stripping at all in these > cases. > > Opinions? If it doesn't strip, but keeps adding ">", these additions will accumulate. Therefore, I think that it can only stop stripping if it also stops adding ">". And that cannot be don, AFAIU, if we want to be able to preserve the mbox format (for example, the FCC feature in Rmail saves messages in mbox files). Am I missing something?