Hi Mate,
I guess there are two issues here:
1. Should comp (and friends) scan for '\n\nFrom ' in the body of
outgoing messages and put a '>' in front of 'From ' when found?
(My patch does NOT provide a fix for this.)
Nope. I think it is the local delivery agent's (that delivers the
message to its final destination) job to do the From quoting (and
to create the From line in the beginning of the message).
nmh (or any other MUA) should not do anything with "\n\nFrom" in the
body of a message when *sending* mail. It is not necessarily the case
that the receiving end will deliver the message to a file in mbox
format. For example, it is possible that the message will be
delivered to a a so called maildir---and "\n\nFrom" plays no role
whatsoever.
Ironically, anyone using (n)mh to read my original message should have
seen the 'BAD MSG' error without even sending themselves a test message
(assuming some MTA didn't fix the '\n\nFrom ' in transit).
Nope, since qmail-local (my local delivery agent) changed "\n\nFrom"
in the body to ">From".
Best
Mate
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Mate Wierdl | Dept. of Math. Sciences | University of Memphis
