On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 01:50:35PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 5.10.2004, at 13:02, Dean Earley wrote:
Is there an option in dovecot to remove the >From escaping in the body of mbox mails?
No. I guess it would be possible to create >From-removing stream on top of raw-mbox-stream, but it would make the code slower and I don't think it's worth the trouble. Also when Dovecot saves messages to mbox, it doesn't do From-quoting. If the >From-removing was done, Dovecot would also have to do From-quoting to keep the behaviour consistent..
That's interesting-- I'd guess that email clients are not going to do the ">From" quoting unless they are reading/writing directly to the mbox themselves, and not when accessing IMAP/POP folders. This would mean that an email client would see a potentially incorrect message, and could corrupt an mbox by sending (for copy/append) a message with missing quoting. I would think that it would be the responsibility of the IMAP/POP server to maintain the mbox integrity (not to mention the correctness of the message). But I can see where it would be a pain, for sure.
mm