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[PATCH] Do not quote "^From " when fetching from IMAP

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Manuel Giraud <manuel <at> ledu-giraud.fr>

Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 15:27:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

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From: Manuel Giraud <manuel <at> ledu-giraud.fr>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: [PATCH] Do not quote "^From " when fetching from IMAP
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2025 17:26:11 +0200
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Tags: patch

Hi,

I'm using mail-source in Gnus to fetch mail from IMAP.  Whenever I get a
message with a line that start with "From " this line is quoted.

This patch removes this quirk… but maybe it was there for a reason.  We
don't have the history for this modification since it is present in the
code of "mail-source.el" since its import into Emacs (in 2000).  FWIW,
'mail-source-fetch-maildir' have this part commented since 2000 also.



In GNU Emacs 31.0.50 (build 31, x86_64-unknown-openbsd7.7) of 2025-09-01
 built on computer
Repository revision: b52ccb997d598caa321141c0abb553d3b3803eee
Repository branch: master
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12101018
System Description: OpenBSD computer 7.7 GENERIC.MP#10 amd64

Configured using:
 'configure CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib
 MAKEINFO=gmakeinfo --prefix=/home/manuel/emacs
 --bindir=/home/manuel/bin --with-x-toolkit=no
 --with-toolkit-scroll-bars=no --without-cairo --without-dbus
 --without-gconf --without-gsettings --without-compress-install'

[0001-Do-not-quote-From-when-fetching-from-IMAP.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]
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-- 
Manuel Giraud

This bug report was last modified 11 days ago.

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