On Tue, Jan 27, 2026 at 08:01:46PM -0500, Kurt Hackenberg wrote:
> The other is written by the old, obscure mail reader VM, written in Emacs 
> Lisp. It escapes only
> message lines that match
> 
>     ^From .*[0-9]$

And even this optimization, while seemingly safe on the surface, fails to catch
some valid real-world From lines. For example, SunOS would end a "standard"
From line (the kind that would otherwise match that regex) with " remote from
remote_system_name" when the mail came from uucp.
https://www.unix.com/man-page/sunos/1/mail/

Dan

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