Variable: rmail-mbox-format

rmail-mbox-format is a customizable variable defined in rmail.el.gz.

Value

mboxrd

Documentation

The mbox format that your system uses.

There is no way to determine this, so you should set the appropriate value. The formats quote lines containing "From " differently. The choices are:
  mboxo : lines that start with "From " quoted as ">From "
  mboxrd: lines that start with ">*From " quoted with another ">"
The mboxo format is ambiguous, in that one cannot know whether a line starting with ">From " originally had a ">" or not.

It is not critical to set this to the correct value; it only affects how Rmail displays lines starting with ">*From " in non-MIME messages.

See also unrmail-mbox-format.

This variable was added, or its default value changed, in Emacs 24.4.

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Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 24.4.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/mail/rmail.el.gz
;; FIXME?
;; rmail-show-mime-function does not unquote >From lines.  Should it?
(defcustom rmail-mbox-format 'mboxrd
  "The mbox format that your system uses.
There is no way to determine this, so you should set the appropriate value.
The formats quote lines containing \"From \" differently.
The choices are:
  `mboxo' : lines that start with \"From \" quoted as \">From \"
  `mboxrd': lines that start with \">*From \" quoted with another \">\"
The `mboxo' format is ambiguous, in that one cannot know whether
a line starting with \">From \" originally had a \">\" or not.

It is not critical to set this to the correct value; it only affects
how Rmail displays lines starting with \">*From \" in non-MIME messages.

See also `unrmail-mbox-format'."
  :type '(choice (const mboxrd)
		 (const mboxro))
  :version "24.4"
  :group 'rmail-files)