tilde escaping
Fabien Tassin
fta at sofaraway.org
Thu Feb 22 12:29:42 UTC 2001
According to Marco d'Itri:
>
> while (<$artfh>) {
> s/^~/~~/;
> print $mail $_;
> }
>
> I suppose the intent is to protect crappy /usr/bin/mail programs, but is
> this code really needed?
it sometimes helps if you have to forward the resulting message using
a BSD-like mailreader or if you are using some strange
gateways/filters/rebouncers. IMHO, it should stay as is.
> I see inn.conf.in has:
>
> mta: @SENDMAIL@ -oi -oem %s
>
> so BSD mail is not supposed to be used.
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