Re: [Exim] exim quoting the word "From" in emails

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Author: Vadim Vygonets
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] exim quoting the word "From" in emails
Quoth Marc Haber on Thu, Mar 11, 2004:
> It's a requirement to quote From in the raw spool file since lines
> beginning with "From " are used to determine where the next message
> starts in a normal mailbox. It's the client's job to remove these
> quotes.


Not really, because lines starting with ">From " are not quoted
(as those of us who use BSD mailboxes saw in the origninal
message in this thread), so "unquoting" ">From " is not safe.

Vadik.

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