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: Re: bug#13328: 24.2; Rmail does not properly decode MIME messages
 containing "From " lines or save such attachments correctly
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2020 14:34:09 +0100

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

>> 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?

If rmail uses that as the regexp, then I guess rmail will have to
continue quoting all "From:?" lines.  But that's a pretty odd regexp to
use to split an mbox file -- first of all, "^From:" is not an mbox
separator at all, and neither is "Fromage".

The normal way to split an mbox is to use something like
`message-unix-mail-delimiter'.

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