Re: [Nmh-workers] Request Deprecation of mts.conf's mmdelim1 and mmdelim2.

[Jon Fairbairn]

Ken Hornstein <address@hidden> writes:

>>Lack of From munging?

That was indeed the reason that I chose it. The thing about
archives is that they are supposed to hang around for a long
time. I’ve been using some form of mh since the 1980s, and the
script that archives my mailboxes hasn’t changed much since
then.

> I suppose that's a reason, but it just seems like mbox has been the
> standard for approximately forever and MMDF is one of those weird relics
> like UUCP that I only hear about once in a million years.

Which is a shame. One of the first things I learnt was that
using in-band data as a separator is a bad idea, so mmdf was
obviously a more sensible format than mbox. The last time I saw
a “>From” that should have been a “From” in a mail body was much
more recent than it should have been.

>>> I think at this point MH/nmh is probably the only tool left that can
>>> deal with such things.

Well, it’s good that it still does.  As I said, archives.

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Jón Fairbairn                                 address@hidden
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