On Fri, Jan 30, 2026 at 01:02:40PM -0500, Kurt Hackenberg wrote: > The original mbox, from 1974, escapes every message line that starts with > "From ", and recognizes an mbox From_ line anywhere, not only after an empty > line. That's the best-known variant of mbox, and many implementations still > do that.
I'm curious, can you point to one? > That piece by Zawinski does not acknowledge the existence of original mbox. It does actually, further in. The page does a very good job of outlining most of the issues with the formats. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
