GNU bug report logs - #13328
24.2; Rmail does not properly decode MIME messages containing "From " lines or save such attachments correctly

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: mdl <at> alum.mit.edu, 13328 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13328: 24.2; Rmail does not properly decode MIME messages containing "From " lines or save such attachments correctly
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2020 15:47:03 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> Furthermore, it's really uncommon for anything to prepend a ">" when the
>> line starts with ">From ".
>> 
>> So I think the bug here is that it does the stripping at all in these
>> cases.
>> 
>> Opinions?
>
> If it doesn't strip, but keeps adding ">", these additions will
> accumulate.

No -- there's no accumulation.

Other mailers only add a ">" to the front of lines that match mbox
separators.  ">From" does not match any mbox separator, so there's no
accumulation.

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