Bug#109171: Use Maildir format by default
>>>>> "Raul" == Raul Miller <moth@debian.org> writes:
Raul> [I know this thread is old.]
Raul> On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 08:31:58AM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
>> I'm interested in performance differences. A big flaw of the
>> mbox format is that every byte of the file must be read to
>> extract headers of the messages .. i.e. display a list of the
>> messages without necessarily showing any data. Does maildir
>> employ a summarization technique or must an MUA open every
>> single file to extract the mailbox headers?
Raul> No.
Raul> Also note that mbox format need not be lossy -- MDA should
Raul> quote with > any line matching regexp "^>*From ", MUA should
Raul> always remove one level of quoting at display time. Any
Raul> software not following this is losing information (and
Raul> therefore buggy).
What is suppose to happen to signed messages?
Current practise, I believe is to quote the "From" headers before the
message is signed, in which case the quoting cannot be removed without
damaging the signature.
>From my ~/.gnupg/options file:
# Because some mailers change lines starting with "From " to ">From "
# it is good to handle such lines in a special way when creating
# cleartext signatures; all other PGP versions it this way too.
# To enable full OpenPGP compliance you have to remove this option.
escape-from-lines
which is really stupid IMHO, as it means the message gets converted
for mbox format before it is even sent.
--
Brian May <bam@debian.org>
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