Re: [OT] Regular DKIM issues on this ML (was: Re: why !oh why Debian and application list)
On 15/06/20 11:44 pm, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 10:13:11AM -0500, David Wright wrote:
>> On Sat 13 Jun 2020 at 16:05:17 (+0200), l0f4r0@tuta.io wrote:
>> > However, this extra ">" should have been deleted upon viewing the email, no?
>>
>> How would the viewer's email client know whether the > in
>> >From had been added by some such scheme as above and should
>> be removed, or was a genuine occurrence in the original email?
>
> Exactly. It's a non-reversible mangling of the message body, prompted by
> an extremely well-known limitation of the mbox formats.
>
> See <https://jdebp.eu/FGA/mail-mbox-formats.html> for more details.
> In particular, we're talking about the
> <https://jdebp.eu/FGA/mail-mbox-formats.html#mboxo> section.
>
> This same discussion seems to happen every month on this list, and it's
> still not clear to me WHY people can't understand it. It's not a new
> phenomenon. It's been this way forever.
>
I understand the phenomenon. I don't understand why modern software (eg
the list software) still does it.
Richard
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