Hi, On 2017-03-19 10:23:59 +0000, Cord Beermann wrote: > Hallo! Du (Vincent Lefevre) hast geschrieben: > > > The Debian mailing-list software mungs e-mail contents by adding a > > ">" character in front of "From" at the beginning of a line. This > > can confuse users since it is similar to the quote prefix. And this > > is not needed at all (it can be needed by the mbox format, but this > > format shouldn't be used for mailing-list handling). > > > > An example: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/08/msg01470.html > > > > This isn't specific to the mail archive since the ">" character > > was also present in the mail copy from debian-user. But it wasn't > > present in the mail copy I received as a Bcc user; so, this didn't > > come from my side. > > Our system uses mbox-files on many stages, for instance when we hand > mails over to the Mailarchive, or if a mail qualifies for special handling > inside the mail-distribution. > > so before a major rewrite (which will most likely never will happen) > this is a wontfix.
I think this should be partially reconsidered. The "From" line of a mbox file as a special format. So, the ">" could be added only to such lines. This would avoid almost all of the false positives (and in particular the most annoying ones). -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
