LWN: Comments on "Heads-up: RPM 4.8.0-beta1 about to hit rawhide "

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

xorbe — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:25:45 +0000

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

jstultz — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:09:11 +0000

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

foom — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:24:06 +0000

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.

smurf — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:17:43 +0000

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

rsidd — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:48:24 +0000

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

smurf — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:52:14 +0000

"> From "

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