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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Edward Betts <edward@4angle.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: exim pipe transport, notmuch insert and mbox-style messages
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Edward Betts <edward@4angle.com> writes:


> I wonder if 'notmuch insert' could be modified to detect and drop the From_
> line before writing the message to disk and index it. It could do that
> silently or with a warning.

I don't know about the larger question(s), but I'd suggest just escaping
it to something like X-Envelope-From: . There may even be some
semi-standard header to use for this.

d