On 3/10/2014 6:08 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 10 mar 14, 21:49:55, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 10:45:36PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >>> >>> Thanks, that confirms my understanding. Wouldn't it however make sense >>> to have this configurable? How many delivery agents actually need that >>> in 2014? >> >> In addition to serving as the mbox delimiter, the "From " line also >> records the envelope sender and message arrival time. It has been >> part of the local delivery interface for a long time. So in 2014 >> I would expect things that have worked for 30+ years to continue >> to work. > > Except that tools complain if Maildir messages begin with a 'From ' line > and all that information is (already) present in the headers.
So, maybe the tool is broken? What is this software? I'm looking at one of my .mbx files. It starts with "From " and has the envelope sender. Later on is the header "From: " (which could possibly be forged). Each message seems to have both forms of "From" - without and with colon. > > It does support it, as in: it doesn't strip it *anymore*, I have to use > additional tools for that. And if external commands don't need but one > standard format why does pipe(8) have all those nice *optional* > processing flags? :) > > Kind regards, > Andrei And if it doesn't 'strip it' "anymore"- did they not break this tool?? Gerry
