Once upon a time Cameron Matheson said... > > On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 08:00:52PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > I like using > > maildirs mostly because mbox feels like a dirty hack, with the whole > > "From " thing. > > What do you mean by the "From "-thing? The message boundary in a mbox-style mailbox is "\n\nFrom ". If a line in an email starts with "From ", a ">" is prepended so that it doesn't appear as an accidental message boundary.