From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Change in rmail-insert-mime-forwarded-message Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:02:43 +0900 Message-ID: <87vcb89em4.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87ehhwtjgv.fsf@foil.strangled.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1357639382 26221 80.91.229.3 (8 Jan 2013 10:03:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 10:03:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: mdl@alum.mit.edu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 08 11:03:20 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TsW1b-00058n-RI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2013 11:03:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49992 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TsW1M-0007fj-6l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2013 05:03:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:39296) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TsW1I-0007f2-U1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2013 05:02:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TsW1E-0004MY-Aj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2013 05:02:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:53641) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TsW1E-0004L0-2G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2013 05:02:52 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BB779708F8; Tue, 8 Jan 2013 19:02:44 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C4E401A30DD; Tue, 8 Jan 2013 19:02:43 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <87ehhwtjgv.fsf@foil.strangled.net> X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta32) "habanero" b0d40183ac79 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.224 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:156136 Archived-At: Mark Lillibridge writes: > Messages stored in mbox format have lines starting with >*From\ > escaped by adding an extra > at the front. This escaping needs to be > reversed to get the original message back. See bug #13329 for more > details. It's not particularly relevant to the problem Richard is reporting, but that's incorrect. mbox formats vary, but the most common ones stuff a ">" if and only if the string "From " occurs at the beginning of a line. If ">From" occurs at the beginning of a line, you can't know whether it was stuffed by the MDA or by the message author or what. The only portable way I know to handle this involves hiding the message text from MDAs by encoding "From" or ">From" as quoted- printable. Steve