Re: Suggested fix to vm-pipe-message-part

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From: blueman
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:34

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Julian Bradfield <jcb@inf.ed.ac.uk> writes:
> On 2010-01-04, blueman <NOSPAM@nospam.com> wrote:
> VM is behaving correctly. The initial From line is NOT part of the RFC
> standard, nor is it part of the message. It's an obsolete Unix mbox hack
> that should have been killed off decades ago - the mbox format is
> patently unsuitable, leading to abominations like From-stuffing.

Depends on your use case -- I find it simple and easy-to-use without
either creating gazillions of files or needing some complex database to
maintain. Also, it is pretty much compatible with thunderbird which is
nice since it allows me to use it on the odd occassion when I need some
pretty formatting or other eye-candy functionality.

Now if I were an ISP or a large corporate employer, I would presumably
not use mbox... but then again I probably wouldn't be using vm either...

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From: blueman <NOSPAM@nospam.com>
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Subject: Re: Suggested fix to vm-pipe-message-part
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:34:40 -0500
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