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Article #273Re: mbox format problem
From: Julian Bradfield
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:15
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:15
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On 2011-02-15, Kurt Hackenberg <kh@pnnnnx.kom> wrote: > Julian Bradfield <jcb@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote: >>On 2011-02-15, Kurt Hackenberg <kh@pnnnnx.kom> wrote: >>> I've had an idea to use the dot-stuffing algorithm used by SMTP: a >>> message is terminated by a line containing nothing but '.'; any such >>> line in the message gets another '.' added at the front. >> >>You also need to stuff any line containing only dots, of course. > > That's what I said. It may be what you meant, but it's not what you said. Read what you said! > No, SMTP's dot-stuffing is reversible. The original message is easily Yes, SMTP's is. But it still shouldn't be necessary to mangle a message in order to store it!
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