Petri Lehtinen <pe...@digip.org> added the comment: I'm a little concerned about backwards compatibility. Someone might get upset if extra >'s start appearing in the messages when they read the mailbox contents with an application that uses the mboxo format.
A little analysis on the possible corruptions that happen with these formats: - When the mailbox is both read and written using the mboxo format, lines starting with "From " are changed to ">From ". - When the mailbox is both read and written using the mboxrd format, no corruption happens. - If the mailbox is written using the mboxo format and read using the mboxrd format, lines that were meant to start with ">From " are changed to "From ". So we essentially get a sligthly different corruption. - If the mailbox is written using the mboxrd format and read using the mboxo format, lines that were meant to start with ">From " are changed to ">>From ". This is a new type of corruption. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13698> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
