On 2026-01-26 14:53:43 +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. In any case, > *all* lines starting with "From " in the body were quoted.
I forgot to say that this applied to messages without a Content-Length header. In my old mbox files, some messages have an unquoted "From " in the body, but in all these cases, there is a Content-Length header, so that this is safe. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
