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In article wisner@mica.Berkeley.EDU (Bill Wisner) writes:
>  On the other hand, I see "^From " in messages
> quite frequently. Well, actually, it's "^>From " that I see frequently.

> UNIX's stoopid mail format insures that no line which starts with the word
> From will survive intact. This mangling of mail is completely unwarranted.
> This sorry excuse for a mailbox format should have been retired years ago.

Several problems with your observations I think.

1) Any line that starts with "From " will turn into a ">From" line as soon
   as a sendmail system finds it.  You're blaming an MUA for a fault of the
   MTA.  This has nothing to do with Mail, Mush or MH.

2) "From " is not the message separator -- the message separator is:
    "From <address> <date(1)>\n"

Mush, unlike mail, will let From_ lines go and not assume a new message
unless the From_ line meets the above criteria.  While it's true that you
won't see 4 ^A's in a row, chances are also likely that you won't see the
above format -unless- you are mailing a folder.  In both cases, (^A's and
From_), you must prefix the string with something ('>' for example) to
delineate it from being another message.

I have just pointed out that logistically, the two formats are functionally
the same.  The advantage that unix-mail format has over MMDF format is the
fact that you can't send ^A's in mail messages.

As a result, you can't mail MMDF folders to another site any more easily
than you can send a unix-format folder.  In both cases, the folder has to
be modified somehow.


dan <island!argv@sun.com>
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