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. _______________________________________________ sup-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/sup-talk
