On Mon, Jan 26, 2026 at 02:53:43PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
I suspect that at that time, most software did not care about the
exact format and just considered the first 5 characters.
that's actually quite reasonable ...
In any case, *all* lines starting with "From " in the body were quoted.
.. because this.
mutt's own mbox(5) sort of implies that this must happen, which is also
the only reasonable thing.
it's reasonable to complain about errors in the envelope info, but this
shouldn't preclude the line from being treated as a message separator,
or affect whether the message is considered fundamentally valid.
so by extension this patch must be considered over-engineered for the
purpose.
