Robert Elz <[email protected]> writes: > Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 09:35:52 +0100 > From: Jon Fairbairn <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > > | One of the first things I learnt was that > | using in-band data as a separator is a bad idea, > > Like most generalizations, that is sometimes true, but sometimes not. > > | so mmdf was obviously a more sensible format than mbox. > > Which doesn't follow at all, as MMDF is also using in-band data as > a separator, just a different one.
Back when I made the decision it was out of band. > I never really used MMDF format, so I am not sure of its details, but > as I understand it, the only real issue with mbox format is that the > conversion isn't invertible, that is, in that format, a line that used > to start "From" is stored as ">From" (which exact lines that happens to > depends upon implementation to some extent, but that doesn't matter), > whereas an input like that started ">From" is also stored as ">From". > When it comes time to extract the message, there's no way to invert that > addition of the '>' as there's no way to determine whether the '>' was > one that was added for this purpose or not. Exactly, but if SOH*4 is now in band, it looks like I now have to redesign my archive scripts. -- Jón Fairbairn [email protected] _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
