Re: Astounding bug in yarn's Import

From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes (sthoenna@efn.org)
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 16:22:00 -0700

In article <Pine.PCP.3.96.1000711201127.-20064B-100000@[206.184.58.106]>,
Howard Schwartz <theo@ncal.verio.com> wrote:
> Alas, yarn's import does not check much if a Unix header is really a
> header. ANY line in a message that starts with a
>
> From
>
> followed by a space, is treated by yarn as the start of a new message!

AFAIU, a line starting 'From ' *is the message header*. If such a
line occurs in the body of a message, it should be stored as '>From '
(i.e. with a '>' prepended). This seemed to complicated to some folks
so they wrote more "clever" mail programs that looked at the whole
line to determine if it looked like a real message header and if not
left the 'From ' unquoted. Unfortunately, this produces mailbox files
that are almost but not completely compatible with the "quote all
'From 's" style. You are seeing the results of this incompatibility.

In short, this isn't a Yarn bug, but rather yarn using an different
standard for the unix mailbox format than your other mail client.