[tz] Converting TZ DB files to pretty markup

Marc Lehmann schmorp at schmorp.de
Tue Jan 29 08:17:30 UTC 2013


On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 12:58:46PM +0100, Steffen Daode Nurpmeso <sdaoden at gmail.com> wrote:
> And yes, a good mailer converts 'From ' lines to quoted printable
> encoding instead of using the '>From ' quoting because it doesn't
> modify actual data content. :)

Except ">From " encoding doesn't modify actual data content either, and
even an average mailer needs to support both formats when reading mbox
format.

(See rfc4155 or http://qmail.org./man/man5/mbox.html for details)

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