Heads-up: RPM 4.8.0-beta1 about to hit rawhide

Posted Dec 7, 2009 17:52 UTC (Mon) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)
Parent article: Heads-up: RPM 4.8.0-beta1 about to hit rawhide

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OK. Somebody still lives in the stone age.

Mailing list problem, or LWN problem? In any case this should be fixed, preferably sometime this century. :-P

Posted Dec 7, 2009 18:48 UTC (Mon) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link] (2 responses)

What's the fix? Other than abandoning the Unix mbox format (and forcing everyone around the world to do likewise)?

Posted Dec 7, 2009 19:17 UTC (Mon) by smurf (subscriber, #17840) [Link]

The fix is simple: de-quote the ">From " line when you read mbox files.
It's reversible, after all. There's even an RFC for it. :-P

Posted Dec 7, 2009 19:24 UTC (Mon) by foom (subscriber, #14868) [Link]

Alternatively, you could use a mail delivery agent and mail reader which agree on one of the formats named mbox that doesn't corrupt messages.

Posted Dec 7, 2009 21:09 UTC (Mon) by jstultz (subscriber, #212) [Link] (1 responses)

Actually, evolution rarely but often enough to be annoying inserts a quote mark on some of my outgoing mails.

Posted Dec 8, 2009 1:25 UTC (Tue) by xorbe (guest, #3165) [Link]

Thunderbird removes the first space from lines for some unknown reason.