On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 02:09:16PM -0500, Tim Chase wrote:
And if program Y "properly" escapes them when storing (indenting again): >From me with no prefix >>From me with one prefix >>>From me with two prefixes >>>>From me with three prefixes program X will only un-mung the first one (correctly(ish)) but fail to unmung the other three, introducing new ">" characters that weren't in the original message.
Only the Rahul Dhesi variant of mbox "properly" escapes things as above. Only the Rahul Dhesi variant unmungs anything.