Re: [sheflug] MUA recommendations?

[Alex Hudson <home [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 15:10 +0100, Adam Funk wrote:
> (2)
> > and the > From thing has been solved for many years ;)
> 
> (2) has not been solved in Thunderbird!  I've just sent myself a test
> message containing the line "From Adam"; in Thunderbird it appears as
> ">From Adam" (the message source has also been modified the same way)
> and in the copy (made by ~/.forward) in my webmail it appears as in the
> original.

Are you sure about that? It's not your MDA?

I just tried it on my exim + Courier setup, and exim stuffs "From "
lines itself - even though it's delivering into Maildir. If I mangle the
mail manually, my MUAs don't blink - either Evolution, or Thunderbird.

Technically, mbox does require the stuffing. But there's no reason why
_MUAs_ should ever see it.

If an MDA between you and your mailbox is getting it wrong, though,
Tbird will store it wrong no matter what.

> (Interestingly, the copy in Thunderbird's Sent folder also has the extra
> ">", which it must have added after sending the message.)

I think that sounds like a bug in the storage code, rather than
deliberate mangling.

Cheers,

Alex.


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