Hey Matthias. On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 21:45 +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: > 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. Well there are several projects out there that actually use alternatives, e.g. dovecot, mutt, getmail, KMail ... and I guess these are not the only ones.
> 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), Well quoted printable encoding is of course a way around this, but similarly as you have no guarantee that a client/tool understands/expects e.g. mboxrd, you have no guarantee that a mail that postfix receives was composed by a client that does this quoting, right? And even if it "does", I found already at least one that does not correctly[0], cause it's obviously not enough to quote (regexp) "^From .*$" lines but one also needs to quote those that already start with a ">"- So IMHO it's good when MUAs do that quoting, but it can be only their part of trying to "fix" broken mailservers/tools. The server side (in this context postfix) should also try to "fix" broken clients... well at least as far as it can. > That is not going to happen on systems outside your domain of control. > Face it. Resignation is probably not the way to change the world! ;-) Anyway, would you know any technical or compatibility reasons that prevent local(8) from using mboxrd? Cheers, Chris. [0] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686363
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