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...and then Jens Paulus said...
% David and others,
%
% On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 11:15:44PM -0400, David T-G wrote:
% > % to the mail separation From_ line in mbox format and inserts the
% > % quotation character itself automatically. I wonder if there is a way to
% >
% > Sure; switch to a mail folder format that doesn't require it. I hear
% > that maildir is good.
%
% Should I change to another format just because of that? Is there no
It's your choice, but it *is* the answer to your question of "is there a
way to avoid that". You may find that you don't have to avoid that. You
may also find that it doesn't really matter because you can't change
everyone in the world (much though, I'm sure, the qmail and maildir
supporters out there would like that ;-) and so it will continue to be
that someone else will get your message with added chars; if that is
what's important to you, then just make sure your paragraps work out so
that there is no leading from_ on any line :-) If you simply don't want
to see it on your end when someone else doesn't so manage a paragraph,
then maildir is about it.
There is, I think, an mbox-like format that obeys the Content-Length:
header (or maybe notices it, or ???) which then doesn't require quoted
from_ lines (see, I had to redo that :-) but 1) I don't recall much other
than that and 2) it's still for format change.
% other way to get around this thing? Do you use maildir yourself, too?
I actually don't; I'm still an mbox user. It's what I know and to which
am accustomed (my archiving methods are specific to mbox), and it works
for me because I have no worries regarding disk sharing and locking and
such. I probably should switch, but I haven't been pushed yet :-)
%
% BTW, David, allow me a another question: why do you use '%' as quotation
% character? I think that's not the standard and, for example, mutt
% doesn't recognize lines with leading '%' as quoted lines by default.
It dates way back to my usenet days when I found the need to maintain
some order in a thread umpteen replies deep. In fact, I use %_ because
I find it more readable and more manageable than just >. I've been using
it since then, and while it isn't standard as defined by RFC, neither
are lots of other quoting characters that folks use, so I don't feel
too terrible :-)
%
% My current setting is that my mutt displays quoted lines in an other
% color than the rest of the text. With you there is no coloring if I
% don't change it artificially.
Just expand your $quote_regexp a bit. Mine looks like
set quote_regexp="^([ \t]*[%|>:}#])+"
which covers most quote chars I've seen. I particularly like the new
$smileys variable which avoids false positives.
%
% -Jens
%
HTH & HAND
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