Lines Beginning with "From" Dash-Escaped?

Nick Andriash Nick Andriash <andriash@home.com>
Sat Apr 28 17:26:01 2001


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On April 28, 2001, at 2:42:10 AM, Ingo Klöcker wrote:

IK> Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.0
IK> -----------------------------------  [snip]     * New option
IK> --escape-from-lines to "dash-escape" "From " lines to
IK> prevent mailers to change them to ">From ".  This is not enabled by
IK> default because it is not in compliance with rfc2440 - however, you
IK> should turn it on.

So if I'm reading the above correctly, the ability to dash-escape "From"
lines is *not* in compliance with RFC2440, and is the reason GnuPG does
not turn this feature on by default. I did notice of course that I *had*
turn it on and have since turned it off.

Does anyone know if you are able to turn this feature off in PGP?

IK> Reason:

Thank you Ingo for a very clear and concise explanation of the reasoning
behind this feature. I shall, with your permission,  pass on that
information to my PGP-Basics Group, many of which including myself use
GnuPG.

- -- 
Nick

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