Timo Sirainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 11:30 +0200, Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote: >> >> 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 ?
Just for the record, I found this page, http://homepages.tesco.net/~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/mail-mbox-formats.html which explains the multiple mbox formats available. I was not aware of this before. Finally, Maildir is the solution... > Maybe. I got this Content-Length: idea originally from mutt which also > uses (used? don't know) Content-Length: instead of From-escaping. Described in the above page as "The mboxcl2 mailbox format". >> 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. Thanks for your reply Timo. Regards, -- Nicolas
