Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes: > On 2019-Jun-30, Tomi Ollila wrote: > >> Just checking line starting with 'From ' would be pretty naïve since >> From may be first word in any line in text body. > > Even so, early mail systems relied on there not being any such lines, > and they escaped those lines to be ">From" or to use quoted-printable > encoding. GMime has bespoke code to do this, in fact. Mail systems > stopped doing this escaping after MIME boundaries got more widely used, > I suppose. As far as I know this is still correct for mbox files in general. In general confusion arises because notmuch has a strict idea of what an mbox is (file starts with "From "), while other software takes a more relaxed approach. _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch