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Re: Maildir use with Mutt



begin  dman  quotation:

> In an mbox, messages must have a
> Lines: header (often added by the delivery agent) so that a reader
> knows how many lines the message is.

Not "must have", but it makes mbox processing more efficient. If the
Lines header is not there, the reader just reads on until it finds a
blank line followed by "From ". This is why, when someone begins a
paragraph with the word "From", you often see that the mail software has
changed it to ">From" -- it prevents confusion.

Craig

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