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> - If the mailbox is written using the mboxrd format and read using the mboxo format, lines that were meant to start with ">From " are changed to ">>From ". This is a new type of corruption.
Well, yes. So the choices are:
mboxrd as default: Sometimes results in corruption
mboxo as default: Always results in corruption
Is there a way to reliably detect the format of the file and produce an error if it seems to be reading it wrong?
If not, maybe just include a function that guesses the format so the correct option can be found easily? If there are consecutive ">" quoted lines, like this, for instance:
>This is the body.
>>From my point of view
>there are 3 lines.
then it was probably encoded with mboxrd? If instead you find:
>This is the body.
>From my point of view
>there are 3 lines.
then it was probably encoded with mboxo?