Subject: Re: bug#13328: 24.2; Rmail does not properly decode MIME messages containing "From " lines or save such attachments correctly

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2020 17:18:36 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

> AFAIK, mbox format requires that every new message begins with a line
> that starts with "From " (sorry, I forgot the space in my previous
> message).  See, for example, this page:
>
>   https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd000383.shtml

The mbox format is more restrictive than just that.
`message-unix-mail-delimiter' is a regexp that matches these lines.

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