Re: combining /var/mail files

[Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen%sdaoden.eu@localhost>]

Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in <20180823233749.Gtg7b%steffen%sdaoden.eu@localhost>:
 |steve%prd.co.uk@localhost wrote in <20180823174137.6B0EF4639B%monroe.prd.co.uk@localhost>:
  ...
 |Otherwise you could my BSD Mail clone which also tries to get the
 |former right -- the POSIX standard and Unix traditional only use
 |"From xy", whereas the standard RFC 4155 is more strict, and that
 |can cause misinterpretations by some software.
  ...

I have to point out that we do _not_ reencode mail messages yet,
which we will be able to do in a few years from now on.  I.e., the
correct way to deal with that would be to detect the mess, then
recreate the message from scratch as necessary, and use some kind
of MIME encoding to prevent misinterpretation.

But for now we unfortunately only use the most basic and only
truly portable form of the traditional "From " quoting mechanism,
and prepend a ">" to any "^From " that happens to exist inside
a message body.
It may nonetheless be better than "cat && echo && cat" for such
cases.

--steffen
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