On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 06:45:54PM -0800 I heard the voice of Michael Elkins, and lo! it spake thus: > > Mutt attempts to compensate for this by using quoted-printable encoding when > it detects things that might break a signature, thus escaping the problem. > But yes, mbox format is more susceptable to corruption of this form.
Mutt also bypasses the problem by not doing From_-escaping when the message has its handy-dandy Content-Length: header (which makes it fun to parse the files if you don't think of it... "Why does this 8-message folder show 12 messages?"). Personally, I use maildir for all my 'active' mailboxes (read: the ones that mail gets delivered to and I read) because it's that much safer, easier and more efficient to alter, and roughly similar in speed to open. I use mbox for my archive mailboxes, because it's simpler and more compact (I don't need to blow a few million inodes on mail archives, thank you very much), and it's faster on the mailboxes with tens or hundreds of thousands of messages. And, having spent rather some time lately writing code to parse mbox's, I'd like to make the following general comment: Bah. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unix Systems Administrator | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Specializing in FreeBSD | http://www.over-yonder.net/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"
