Hi all,

I've just been through some frustration finding out why mutt and kmail
just don't want to cooperate (bug 41008 at bugs.kde.org).

The upshot of that seems to be that Content-Length: is a non-standard
extension, with RFC saying it's deprecated (if not discouraged).
There's a big rant about it at
http://www.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/2.0/relnotes/demo/content-length.html

Emails which have Content-Length: but no "^From " quoting can't be read
by clients which ignore Content-Length:, to which they're entitled to
according to RFC, so it seems.

The maintainer of procmail very recently didn't like Content-Length:
at all either
http://www.rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de/cgi-bin/w3glimpse2html/procmail/2002-02/msg00019.html?53#mfs

I don't quite follow all the arguments, but can anyone say what mutt's
take on all this is?

Is there any suitable method which does not use content-length: and
doesn't mangle From in bodies?

Also see thread "Mutt ignoring 'From ' lines in mailbox" ealier this
month.

Thanks,

Volker

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