On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Dean Brooks wrote:
> We definitely have many scripts that depend upon the existing
> behavior. Introducing line feeds would definitely make searching more
> difficult as regexps would be required for almost every single search
> at that point. Requiring regexp's can be unnecessarily complicated
> for setting up a large numberof simple searches.
OK. So the default clearly has to remain as it is.
> An alternative question - why would someone want to keep the linefeeds
> in $message_body? I'm sure there are legitimate needs but wasn't sure
> what they would be...
I suspect it is to do with analysing messages that have attachements.
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