Hi all Is there an option in dovecot to remove the >From escaping in the body of mbox mails? Thanks -- Dean Earley AKA Dee (dean at earlsoft.co.uk) irc: irc://irc.blitzed.org/ web: http://personal.earlsoft.co.uk phone: +44 (0)780 8369596
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.. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: PGP.sig Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 186 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20041005/5a6732f2/attachment-0001.bin>
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
--On Tuesday, October 05, 2004 11:02 AM +0100 Dean Earley <dean at earlsoft.co.uk> wrote:> Is there an option in dovecot to remove the >From escaping in the body of > mbox mails?I recall reading a discussion somewhere about why this can be a bad idea, but now I can't seem to find it. Google turns up this: <http://groups.google.com/groups?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&c2coff=1&q=mbox+%22from+escaping%22&btnG=Search>