Demi M. Obenour <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2020-03-05 20:27, Philip Guenther wrote: > > Nope. The unix mailbox format** does not reversibly "quote" a "From " but > > rather irreversibly mangles them. A handful of tools have tried changing > > the interpretation but that's merely made the situation worse by making > > behaviors inconsistent and mangling a different set of messages. > > > > If you need a format that doesn't mangle this sort of content, then Don't > > Use UNIX mailbox format. > > In that case, `mbox` should not be the default configuration, and > `mail(1)` et al should support alternatives.
Did you submit a diff which starts us in that direction? Or was it deleted by the mailing list? > Unless I am missing something, there are no tools that support reading > from maildir in the base system. Furthermore, there are variations > of mbox that do not mangle *any* messages, since they use reversible > quoting. Proper use of MIME encoding also avoids the problem, but > none of the tools in the base system support decoding it, and none > of the programs in the base system that send mail use it (another bug). > > I don’t particularly care which of the various variations on mbox > is used, provided that mail(1) and mail.local(8) are consistent with > each other. Saying so doesn't make it happen. *ALL* the pieces must be prepared, then it can change. If everything isn't ready, then why would we not stick to the status quo? In my view, this issue is small compared to some incoherent mailfile here maildir there and shrug situation. It sounds like you have a plan. Want to execute *ALL OF IT*?
