Once upon a time Cameron Matheson said...
> 
> On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 08:00:52PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> > I like using
> > maildirs mostly because mbox feels like a dirty hack, with the whole
> > "From " thing. 
> 
> What do you mean by the "From "-thing?  

The message boundary in a mbox-style mailbox is "\n\nFrom ". If a line
in an email starts with "From ", a ">" is prepended so that it doesn't
appear as an accidental message boundary.


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