From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:06:48 GMT
Subject: Re: imap-send badly handles commit bodies beginning with "From <"
Message-ID: <4EB01918.8080604@alum.mit.edu>
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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