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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Message #17 received at 13328 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: mdl <at> alum.mit.edu, 13328 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13328: 24.2; Rmail does not properly decode MIME messages
 containing "From " lines or save such attachments correctly
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2020 18:04:22 +0200

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: mdl <at> alum.mit.edu,  13328 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2020 15:47:03 +0100
> 
> 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.

But Rmail uses "^From:?" as the regexp that identifies the beginning
of another message in an mbox file, so it must quote other "From"s to
avoid catastrophic failures later.  Or am I missing something?

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