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imap-send badly handles commit bodies beginning with "From <"

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AEAndrew Eikum <aeikum@codeweavers.com>
Date
Oct 28, 2011, 18:00 UTC
Message-ID
<20111028180044.GA3966@foghorn.codeweavers.com>
Ran into this today. I had a commit message that looked like:

--- Do something

>From <http://url>:

Words ---

I put it through imap-send to email it to my project, and ended up with this output:

sending 1 messages
 200% (2/1) done

On the server side, it was split into two mails on either side of that commit message's From line with neither mail actually containing the From line. To fix it, I just changed it to "Copied from <url>:" :-P

Ain't mbox grand?
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