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Re: e-mail with line in body beginning with "From"



On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 02:57:42AM -0500, paulf@quillandmouse.com wrote:
> You don't want to do this. Consider an MUA which stores your mail in
> "mbox" format-- one email right after another in one file. The
> delimiter is a line which starts at the left margin with the word
> "From".

Technically, it's the 5-character sequence "From " (including the space)
that matters in mbox formats.  If you begin a line with "Fromage", or
"From:", or even "From" followed by a tab, it won't need to be
escaped/armored.


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