Brandon Casey <drafnel@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > But isn't each email in the mbox file supposed to be RFC-2822 > formatted anyway? If so, then my reading of RFC-2822 says that there > should only be CRLF everywhere and no bare CR or bare LF. But maybe > everyone has just been ignoring that part of RFC-2822? I'm not an > email expert, so I really don't know. RFC 2822 specifies a *transport* format, where each text lines is represented by terminating it with CRLF. Any other use is outside the scope of that RFC. The mbox format normally uses the native format for text files, which means LF terminated lines when used under Unix. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html