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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: mdl@alum.mit.edu, 13328@debbugs.gnu.org
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 17:18:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r1o0fezn.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83lfe8714d.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 08 Dec 2020 17:45:22 +0200")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> 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

The mbox format is more restrictive than just that.
`message-unix-mail-delimiter' is a regexp that matches these lines.

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-08 16:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-01 21:34 bug#13328: 24.2; Rmail does not properly decode MIME messages containing "From " lines or save such attachments correctly Mark Lillibridge
2020-12-06 19:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-06 19:54   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-07 14:47     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-07 16:04       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-08 13:34         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-08 15:45           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-08 16:18             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2022-10-10 18:00               ` Mark Lillibridge

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