[Dovecot] mbox From escaping implementation ?

Nicolas KOWALSKI niko at petole.dyndns.org
Tue May 27 12:30:24 EEST 2008


Hello,

I read in the wiki (http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/mbox) about
"From Escaping":

"Dovecot doesn't currently do this escaping however. Instead it
prevents this confusion by adding Content-Length headers so it knows
later where the next message begins. Dovecot doesn't either remove the
'>' characters before sending the data to clients. Both of these will
probably be implemented later."

As I understand it, this makes the mbox format of dovecot slightly
incompatible with other mbox-capable clients, because if they read the
data files directly, they may understand a line starting with an
unescaped 'From ' as the start of a new message. Right ?

Are there any plans to implement this escaping in the future (1.1.x or
2.0.x?)

Thanks,
-- 
Nicolas


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