Re: [Asrg] Body signature subgroup and the forwarding project

[John Levine <asrg at johnlevine.com>]

>> So the algorithm appears to be 
>> 
>> ^(>*)From      ->  ${1}>From   when into mailbox and
>> 
>> ^(>*)>From     ->  ${1}From    when out of mailbox

Right.

>Maybe the reported problem was that the system was not symmetrical in
>this way, ...

That's often a problem.  The "correct" way to store messages in
mboxes, if anything related to such a bogus format can be described as
correct, is to add a > when you store a message and remove one when
you fetch it, but code that handles mboxes is utterly inconsistent.
Some does that, some just puts a > in front of an unquoted From,
some stacks up the >>> but forgets to unstack it.

R's,
John

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