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The global complexity would be lower if the mbox format, which IIUC is what makes that quoting necessary, would just die already. We've only had Maildir for abo
by mwcampbell 10y ago
The global complexity would be lower if the mbox format, which IIUC is what makes that quoting necessary, would just die already. We've only had Maildir for about 20 years now.
- jjnoakes 10y agoMaybe, maybe not. There's quoting everywhere. EVERYWHERE. Doing it wrong is the source of some extremely damaging exploits (SQL injection, shell command injection, XSS, ...). Fixing From and >From is but a drop in the bucket.