On 3 December 2001, GOMBAS Gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 08:20:07AM +0200, Liviu Daia wrote:
>
> > (In case you wonder, MH utilities sometimes stick ">From " in the
> > middle of the headers.)
>
> Then they are broken
No, they aren't. :-) The MH format is not enforced by any RFC (and
neither is Berkeley mbox, BTW). MH doesn't claim RFC compliance of its
internal format, or compatibility with Cyrus' deliver; it only claims it
can send and receive mail. It's just that those nasty little creatures
commonly referred to as "users", sometimes want to sully the glittering
purity of our RFCs, by piping unclean MH messages into deliver. What a
unbelievably disgusting idea, isn't it. :-)
> and should be fixed.
Nope, because:
> But do not try fixing something that is _not_ broken.
On a more serious note, if "fixing something that isn't broken"
triggers your jihad mood, how about seeing it as a little convenience
hack, that makes deliver do what most people seem to expect.
Personally, I don't care either way, because I'm not using either MH or
deliver, but like I said, the current behaviour is an unnecessary PITA.
Regards,
Liviu Daia
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