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* [PATCH] mbox: use mboxrd quoting rules
@ 2015-08-23  0:02 Eric Wong
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From: Eric Wong @ 2015-08-23  0:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: meta; +Cc: Eric Wong

This redundantly quotes >From from to prevent losing information
as described by qmail
---
 lib/PublicInbox/Mbox.pm | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/Mbox.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/Mbox.pm
index bc4d639..332e89a 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/Mbox.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/Mbox.pm
@@ -42,7 +42,11 @@ sub emit_msg {
 
 	$buf = $simple->body;
 	$simple->body_set('');
-	$buf =~ s/^(From )/>$1/gm;
+
+	# mboxrd quoting style
+	# ref: http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/mbox.html
+	$buf =~ s/^(>*From )/>$1/gm;
+
 	$buf .= "\n" unless $buf =~ /\n\z/s;
 
 	$fh->write($buf);
-- 
EW


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