[Dovecot] mbox From escaping implementation ?

[Nicolas KOWALSKI]

Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> writes:

> On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 11:30 +0200, Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote:
>>
>> 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 ?

Just for the record, I found this page,
http://homepages.tesco.net/~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/mail-mbox-formats.html
which explains the multiple mbox formats available. I was not aware of
this before. Finally, Maildir is the solution...


> Maybe. I got this Content-Length: idea originally from mutt which also
> uses (used? don't know) Content-Length: instead of From-escaping.

Described in the above page as "The mboxcl2 mailbox format".


>> Are there any plans to implement this escaping in the future (1.1.x or
>> 2.0.x?)
>
> It's a very low priority for me. The Content-Length: usage has actually
> been completely broken in all v1.0 releases and only a couple of people
> ever noticed it. I finally fixed it in v1.1 some weeks ago.

Thanks for your reply Timo.

Regards,
-- 
Nicolas