On 11/6/2008, "Bart Schaefer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Tomas Pospisek ML <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Apparently (al)pine doesn't quote, when there's not _an empty line_ >> before the "From" line. [1] seems to provide a little bit of a meager >> reference. > >Pine and by inheritance alpine have a very strict view of what >constitutes valid syntax for the line that begins a new message in >mbox format. It has to have the email address in the correct place, >the date has to be in the correct format, etc., or it doesn't count. >I believe it has a configuration option for whether it sticks a ">" in >front of lines that begin with "From " but don't have the entire >correct layout. > >Other email clients have a much more liberal notion of what >constitutes a so-called From_ line. Mush/Z-Mail, the email clients >that I used to work on (as in, write the C code for) 15 years ago, >would accept a fairly wide variety of formats, but they all had to >have an address and something resembling a date.
Possibly (al)pine is following RFC 4155, that describes how the "From" delimiter should look like down in Appendix A... ? *t _______________________________________________ sup-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/sup-talk
