Am 29.10.2012 00:46, schrieb Christoph Anton Mitterer: > I just stumbled across this issue with mboxo recently and it seems that > most users are not familiar with it (or that there are actually several > mbox formats).
Well, if you'd looked at the date of your sources, you'd have known that others have failed establishing alternatives to what DJB or Rahul Dhesi or whoever dubbed "mboxo" in nearly two decades. The whole signature part of the discussion is a red herring. From_ line stuffing has been known for a long time, and given MIME, it is always possible to encode a message such that it can be stored in a mboxo database without loss of information. MIME quoted-printable has been invented roughly two decades ago. I seem to recall that I had proposed to re-encode From_ lines to MIME quoted/printable years ago (turning them into =46rom_ lines or thereabouts), possibly not directly in Wietse's direction - but that is more than a decade old, too: <http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/postfix/2002-06/0419.html> I wonder if there is pertinent code in the 8BITMIME support corner that could be leveraged to avoid From_ stuffing iff (the message is already in MIME format OR a particular future local(8) option is enabled). > I think especially new users with simple setups may often use local(8), > because with local users you don't need "complicated" setup with virtual > mailboxes and authentication... > And especially for them, I think it would be good goal when all systems > could move away from mboxo. :) That is not going to happen on systems outside your domain of control. Face it.
