[Dovecot] mbox From escaping implementation ?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 13:21 +0200, Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote:
> 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".

Pretty much yes, except Dovecot is able to handle missing or broken
Content-Length: headers.

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