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>

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