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Posted to server-user@james.apache.org by Sean <ro...@rprogrammer.net> on 2009/02/08 14:54:15 UTC

MBox escaping?

I just sent myself a message containing the line:
>From Mail Delivery System <MA...@gmail.com> Sat Feb 07 16:09:10 2009

When I looked in my mbox, it wasn't escaped at all!

Postfix escapes these by putting a > in front, to become:
>>From Mail Delivery System <MA...@gmail.com> Sat Feb 07 16:09:10 2009

I don't see any reason why mboxrd (ie, qmail) escaping wouldn't be acceptable:
http://www.qmail.org/qmail-manual-html/man5/mbox.html



Also, make sure you prepend > to already-prepended lines, otherwise a
message like this would become corrupted when the mbox is decoded:


I got a new email...
>From the president!

Here's the message:
>>From barack
>Sent Today, at 2:45 PM
>Got my blackberry yet?

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