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| -rw-r--r-- | archivemail.1 | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | archivemail.sgml | 9 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/archivemail.1 b/archivemail.1 index 934a258..f7161c3 100644 --- a/archivemail.1 +++ b/archivemail.1 @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ .\" <http://shell.ipoline.com/~elmert/comp/docbook2X/> .\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, .\" etc. to Steve Cheng <steve@ggi-project.org>. -.TH "ARCHIVEMAIL" "1" "15 October 2006" "SP" "" +.TH "ARCHIVEMAIL" "1" "19 October 2006" "SP" "" .SH NAME archivemail \- archive and compress your old email @@ -178,10 +178,11 @@ been read by looking at the filename. If the filename contains an 'S' after \fI:2,\fR then it assumes the message has been read. .TP \fB --dont-mangle-from\fR -Do not mangle lines in message bodies beginning with "From ". Since mail user -agents may interpret such lines as message separators, by default -\fBarchivemail\fR mangles them by prepending a '>' to these lines (that is, -the resulting mailbox is in \fBMBOXO\fR-format). See \fBmbox\fR(5) for more +Do not mangle lines in message bodies beginning with "From ". When archiving +a message from a mailbox not in \fBmbox\fR format, by default +\fBarchivemail\fR mangles such lines by prepending a '>' to them, since mail +user agents might otherwise interpret these lines as message separators. +Messages from \fBmbox\fR folders are never mangled. See \fBmbox\fR(5) for more information. .TP \fB --delete\fR diff --git a/archivemail.sgml b/archivemail.sgml index dd9e607..9ef95b7 100644 --- a/archivemail.sgml +++ b/archivemail.sgml @@ -251,10 +251,11 @@ been read by looking at the filename. If the filename contains an 'S' after <Option>--dont-mangle-from</Option> </Term> <ListItem><Para> -Do not mangle lines in message bodies beginning with "From ". Since mail user -agents may interpret such lines as message separators, by default -<command/archivemail/ mangles them by prepending a '>' to these lines (that is, -the resulting mailbox is in <application/MBOXO/-format). See &mbox; for more +Do not mangle lines in message bodies beginning with "From ". When archiving +a message from a mailbox not in <application/mbox/ format, by default +<command/archivemail/ mangles such lines by prepending a '>' to them, since mail +user agents might otherwise interpret these lines as message separators. +Messages from <application/mbox/ folders are never mangled. See &mbox; for more information. </Para></ListItem> </VarListEntry> |