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Re: [OT] Regular DKIM issues on this ML (was: Re: why !oh why Debian and application list)

From David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: [OT] Regular DKIM issues on this ML (was: Re: why !oh why Debian and application list)
Date 2020-06-14 17:20 +0200
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On Sat 13 Jun 2020 at 16:05:17 (+0200), l0f4r0@tuta.io wrote:
> 13 juin 2020 à 14:21 de andy@strugglers.net:
> 
> > The mbox mail archive format is a single file containing all
> > messages concatenated together. Separate messages are recognised by
> > a line that starts:
> >
> > >From > you@example.com>  ...
> >
> > As you can imagine if a message body contained such text it might
> > prematurely end the emails and then the next email would be of an
> > invalid format.
> >
> > As a result a lot of (mostly older) mail software escapes mail body
> > lines that begin with "From" by putting a ">" in front, sometimes
> > even when not in the context of archiving into an mbox. This is most
> > likely what happened here. The use of ">" for this is just a very
> > common convention.
> >
> Thanks, I was not aware of this.
> However, this extra ">" should have been deleted upon viewing the email, no?

How would the viewer's email client know whether the > in
>From had been added by some such scheme as above and should
be removed, or was a genuine occurrence in the original email?

> If I'm right, escaping "From" with a leading ">" is just for mailing software internals (mbox), the reverse process is applied when displaying the final message...

Cheers,
David.

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why !oh why Debian and application list Seeds Notoneofmy <notoneofmyseeds@gmx.de> - 2020-06-07 19:30 +0200
  Re: why !oh why Debian and application list l0f4r0@tuta.io - 2020-06-07 19:40 +0200
    Re: why !oh why Debian and application list Seeds Notoneofmy <notoneofmyseeds@gmx.de> - 2020-06-07 19:50 +0200
  Re: why !oh why Debian and application list Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-06-07 19:40 +0200
    Re: why !oh why Debian and application list Seeds Notoneofmy <notoneofmyseeds@gmx.de> - 2020-06-07 20:00 +0200
      Re: why !oh why Debian and application list Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-06-07 21:40 +0200
        Re: why !oh why Debian and application list Seeds Notoneofmy <notoneofmyseeds@gmx.de> - 2020-06-07 22:30 +0200
      Re: why !oh why Debian and application list Marco Möller <talby@debianlists.mobilxpress.net> - 2020-06-07 22:30 +0200
        Re: why !oh why Debian and application list Seeds Notoneofmy <notoneofmyseeds@gmx.de> - 2020-06-07 22:30 +0200
      Re: why !oh why Debian and application list Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-06-08 00:10 +0200
    Re: why !oh why Debian and application list Seeds Notoneofmy <notoneofmyseeds@gmx.de> - 2020-06-07 20:00 +0200
  Re: why !oh why Debian and application list Peter Ehlert <peter@sdi-baja.com> - 2020-06-07 20:10 +0200
    Re: why !oh why Debian and application list Seeds Notoneofmy <notoneofmyseeds@gmx.de> - 2020-06-07 20:30 +0200
      Re: why !oh why Debian and application list l0f4r0@tuta.io - 2020-06-07 20:50 +0200
        Re: why !oh why Debian and application list Seeds Notoneofmy <notoneofmyseeds@gmx.de> - 2020-06-07 21:20 +0200
          Re: why !oh why Debian and application list l0f4r0@tuta.io - 2020-06-07 21:30 +0200
            Re: why !oh why Debian and application list Seeds Notoneofmy <notoneofmyseeds@gmx.de> - 2020-06-07 22:10 +0200
              Re: why !oh why Debian and application list l0f4r0@tuta.io - 2020-06-07 23:00 +0200
                Re: why !oh why Debian and application list Seeds Notoneofmy <notoneofmyseeds@gmx.de> - 2020-06-11 23:20 +0200
                Re: why !oh why Debian and application list l0f4r0@tuta.io - 2020-06-12 00:30 +0200
      Re: why !oh why Debian and application list Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-06-08 00:10 +0200
      Re: why !oh why Debian and application list Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2020-06-08 00:50 +0200
  Re: why !oh why Debian and application list Geoff Reidy <geoff.reidy@gmail.com> - 2020-06-08 02:50 +0200
  Re: why !oh why Debian and application list Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-06-08 08:30 +0200
    Re: why !oh why Debian and application list Peter Ehlert <peter@sdi-baja.com> - 2020-06-08 15:10 +0200
    Re: why !oh why Debian and application list Seeds Notoneofmy <notoneofmyseeds@gmx.de> - 2020-06-11 23:20 +0200
  Re: why !oh why Debian and application list A_Man_Without_Clue <love.chaser@gmail.com> - 2020-06-12 03:40 +0200
    Re: why !oh why Debian and application list Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-06-12 10:40 +0200
      Re: why !oh why Debian and application list Admin4 <admin4@dwaves.de> - 2020-06-12 10:50 +0200
    Re: why !oh why Debian and application list Seeds Notoneofmy <notoneofmyseeds@gmx.de> - 2020-06-14 02:00 +0200
  [OT] Regular DKIM issues on this ML (was: Re: why !oh why Debian  and application list) l0f4r0@tuta.io - 2020-06-12 15:50 +0200
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