On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 13:21 +0200, Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote: > 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".
Pretty much yes, except Dovecot is able to handle missing or broken Content-Length: headers.
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