Re: cvs HEAD rejects From xxx

[Peter Bloomfield <PeterBloomfield bellsouth net>]

On 05/10/2004 07:28:45 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> Hi Peter.
>
> I wouldn't offer myself as an expert on these matters, but  
> isn't From <space> valid as a first line?  Or only as a  
> sperator in mbox-style files.  In any case, here's an example.   
> It works fine with 2.0.16
>
> --- begin quoted file
> >From balsa-list-admin gnome org Sun Jan 18 10: 15:26 2004
[ snip ]

I'm not sure there is a definitive statement of what's valid in  
MH and Maildir message files, but Balsa tries to interoperate  
with other MUAs as far as possible.  Balsa 2.1 wouldn't put a  
line like that in such a file.

Re Maildir, http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/maildir.html states:

The message is delivered without an extra UUCP-style From_ line,  
without any >From quoting, and without an extra blank line at the  
end.

I can't find any corresponding statement about MH.

We'll look into a patch.

Peter