On 28 April 2010 03:38, Leo <leo.shklovs...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is a fun one.
A bit like finding fossils, methinks. > The message that appears on the other end has this in the body: > > >From puppies > > A From at the beginning of any lines in the body gets a > prepended to > it. The reason this exists at all is of course because once upon a time, email was stored on disk in the mbox format, several messages per file, and a new message started with 'From ' at the start of the line meaning that 'From ' as the start of the line in message contents therefore had to be escaped somehow. Just to be safe, many mail-systems still do so even if they no longer use mbox. This problem *will* sooner or later bite anyone who touches an email system, it is as inevitable as earthquakes.</historylesson> the-real-solution-is-to-ditch-SMTP-ly yours, HM, postmaster -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-develop...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
