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: Tue, 08 Dec 2020 17:45:22 +0200 Message-ID: <83lfe8714d.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8738ykvb8s.fsf@foil.strangled.net> <87y2iapwan.fsf@gnus.org> <83ft4iaexd.fsf@gnu.org> <87mtypisgo.fsf@gnus.org> <83o8j58uwp.fsf@gnu.org> <87h7ow4e26.fsf@gnus.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="5085"; 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 Tue Dec 08 16:46:12 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 1kmfBr-0001CY-BA for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 08 Dec 2020 16:46:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45464 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kmfBq-00082W-CW for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 08 Dec 2020 10:46:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51990) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kmfBi-00081c-O3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Dec 2020 10:46:02 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:47713) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kmfBi-0002Df-Gu for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Dec 2020 10:46:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kmfBi-00055Y-E7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Dec 2020 10:46:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2020 15:46:02 +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=B13328.160744233619525 (code B ref 13328); Tue, 08 Dec 2020 15:46:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 13328) by debbugs.gnu.org; 8 Dec 2020 15:45:36 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59259 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kmfBI-00054r-JI for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 08 Dec 2020 10:45:36 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:58722) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kmfBH-00054f-9D for 13328@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 08 Dec 2020 10:45:35 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:52690) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kmfBB-0001wc-3s; Tue, 08 Dec 2020 10:45:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2443 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kmfBA-000372-2t; Tue, 08 Dec 2020 10:45:28 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87h7ow4e26.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Tue, 08 Dec 2020 14:34:09 +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:195369 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Cc: mdl@alum.mit.edu, 13328@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2020 14:34:09 +0100 > > > But Rmail uses "^From:?" as the regexp that identifies the beginning > > of another message in an mbox file, so it must quote other "From"s to > > avoid catastrophic failures later. Or am I missing something? > > If rmail uses that as the regexp, then I guess rmail will have to > continue quoting all "From:?" lines. But that's a pretty odd regexp to > use to split an mbox file -- first of all, "^From:" is not an mbox > separator at all, and neither is "Fromage". AFAIK, mbox format requires that every new message begins with a line that starts with "From " (sorry, I forgot the space in my previous message). See, for example, this page: https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd000383.shtml