On 21Nov2020 16:37, Kurt Hackenberg <k...@panix.com> wrote: >On 2020-11-21 00:10, Cameron Simpson wrote: >>How about: >> >> The draft file is expected to contain just an RFC822 email: >> headers and a body. Although it is not an mbox file, if an mbox "From >> " pseudo-header is present, it will be silently discarded. > >I like this approach. However, please don't call it a "pseudo-header". >That still sounds like it's kinda sorta part of RFC 822. It's not, at >all. It's not even legal syntax for a header (because there's no ':'). >It usually called a "From " line or From_ line. > >'...if an mbox "From " line is present...'
I went with "pseudoheader" because people confused by this are confused because they think it _is_ a header, after all in an mbox file it's always the first thing. I can see that that elevates its status. This then? The draft file is expected to contain just an RFC822 email: headers and a body. Although it is not an mbox file, if an mbox "From " line is present, it will be silently discarded. I'll figure out how to do a *roff nonbreaking space; I used to know... Thanks, Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au>