On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, David T-G wrote: > Your MDA will also escape any ^From_ in the body to avoid confusion with > a message separator line -- if it's delivering to an mbox file.
That doesn't seem to be true. For example, in one of my sent-mail files from pine, I saw this line (there was no ">" before it): >From 66.28.28.22: Destination Host Unreachable pine knows not to recognize it as a "From" line, so I'm thinking that pine makes sure that it also has a date like "Mon Nov 26 06:33:50 2001" on it. My current best guess for a regexp to match a message separator line is this: /^From (\s*[^ ]+\s+... ... .. ..:..:.. ....)/ but I'm wondering if there might be obscure cases in which it breaks.
