On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 11:30 +0200, Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote: > Hello, > > I read in the wiki (http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/mbox) about > "From Escaping": > > "Dovecot doesn't currently do this escaping however. Instead it > prevents this confusion by adding Content-Length headers so it knows > later where the next message begins. Dovecot doesn't either remove the > '>' characters before sending the data to clients. Both of these will > probably be implemented later." > > As I understand it, this makes the mbox format of dovecot slightly > incompatible with other mbox-capable clients, because if they read the > data files directly, they may understand a line starting with an > unescaped 'From ' as the start of a new message. Right ?
Maybe. I got this Content-Length: idea originally from mutt which also uses (used? don't know) Content-Length: instead of From-escaping. > Are there any plans to implement this escaping in the future (1.1.x or > 2.0.x?) It's a very low priority for me. The Content-Length: usage has actually been completely broken in all v1.0 releases and only a couple of people ever noticed it. I finally fixed it in v1.1 some weeks ago.
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