Re: Maildir use with Mutt

[bob@proulx.com (Bob Proulx)]

> > 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.

This is, of course, an old rant.  One of the better threads about this
is available here:

  http://www.jwz.org/doc/content-length.html

Bob


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