On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 02:43:50PM -0400, Kurt Hackenberg wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 11:26:00PM -0700, Will Yardley wrote: > > On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 01:31:27AM -0400, Kurt Hackenberg wrote:
> > Right, totally understand all of this, but where I'm confused is that if > > the claim is that Mutt uses Mboxcl2 (as I think the man page for mbox(5) > > implies, and also as it adds the Content-Length header) it shouldn't > > _need_ to escape the "From " lines in message bodies, but it does anyway. > > No, it doesn't, by my testing. I tested it again just now, and confirmed that. That's fair. Looks like it's getting added by my MDA -- I can confirm you're right that if I create a message and, say, postpone it in mutt, the generated file does not have the escaping. Though then it's even more odd that mbox(5) which ships with mutt _does_ (now) mention MBOXCL2, but also still leaves in all the text about From_ escaping / quoting. https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/-/blob/master/doc/mbox.man?ref_type=heads w
