On Tuesday, January 20 at 05:03 PM, quoth Patrick Shanahan:
* Kyle Wheeler <kyle-m...@memoryhole.net> [01-20-09 16:53]:
In any case: DON'T USE MBOX! It's a lousy format for general-purpose
email. The right mbox flavor can be good for read-only archives, but
that's about it.
While I have no doubt that you are speaking fact, I have been using
mbox (with mutt/procmail/postfix) for > 10 years starting with
Mandrake 5.0 and have not experienced mailbox corruption/garbling ever
to memory. BUT, I am Irish :^)
HEH, well, it's all a question of how often you have lines that begin
with From in the middle of a line (and how you define "corruption").
What I've found is that either my editor or mutt simply inserts a
space in front of From lines, and then as part of format-flowed
display (I think), mutt removes that space.
But, let's do a test:
From line
Does the previous line have a > in front of it? It didn't when I
composed this message (it also didn't have a space in front of it
either). If it does for you, then technically this message has been
corrupted.
~Kyle
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Frankly, I'm suspicious of anyone who has a strong opinion on a
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