From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "Magnus Bäck" <magnus.back@sonyericsson.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, "Andrew Eikum" <aeikum@codeweavers.com>
Subject: Re: imap-send badly handles commit bodies beginning with "From <"
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:06:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EB01918.8080604@alum.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111101153803.GB5552@sigill.intra.peff.net>
On 11/01/2011 04:38 PM, Jeff King wrote:
> Right. If you properly quote and unquote "From " lines, then mbox can be
> unambiguous.
That is not quite true. The RFC says only that lines matching "^From "
should be quoted, not lines matching "^>From " (or, generally, "^>*From
"). So the quoting is lossy; it is *not* possible to tell whether a
line starting with ">From " should be unquoted (it could have been
">From " in the original).
Michael
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-01 16:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-28 18:00 imap-send badly handles commit bodies beginning with "From <" Andrew Eikum
2011-10-28 20:32 ` Jeff King
2011-10-28 21:21 ` Andrew Eikum
2011-10-28 21:37 ` Jeff King
2011-10-30 9:01 ` Magnus Bäck
2011-11-01 15:38 ` Jeff King
2011-11-01 16:06 ` Michael Haggerty [this message]
2011-11-01 16:14 ` Jeff King
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