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Re: KA9Q - From to >From in received mail

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From: Mark Rogers
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 00:00
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In article <882960668snz@siberia.demon.co.uk>, Claire wrote:
> Hmm.  If it was something that could be disabled, I can't see
> any problem with a change.   But even tho I don't use PCELM much
> these days (prefer Pegasus), I would be loathe to see any changes
> that would break it it, and not escaping any line is the message
> body beginning "From " would certainly break it.  From another
> quick reading, it would also break the PM-Demon gateway.

My point is that KA9Q uses "smtp separator" as its message separator, or 
"From " otherwise. If you use "From " then you would expect it to be 
escaped. If instead you used "smtp separator" to specify using "Something 
Else" as delimeter it would be reasonable to expect that "Something Else", 
rather than "From ", would be escaped. At present that is not the case.

Mark.
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From: Mark Rogers <mcr@holly.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: KA9Q - From to >From in received mail
Date: 1997/12/27
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