Variable: unrmail-mbox-format

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

Value

mboxrd

Documentation

The mbox format that unrmail should produce.

These formats separate messages using lines that start with "From ". Therefore any lines in the message bodies that start with "From " must be quoted. The mboxo format just prepends a ">" to such lines. This is not reversible, because given a line starting with ">From " in an mboxo file, it is not possible to know whether the original had a ">" or not. The mboxrd format avoids this by also quoting ">From " as
">>From ", and so on. For this reason, mboxrd is recommended.

See also rmail-mbox-format.

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

Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 24.4.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/mail/unrmail.el.gz
(defvar rmime-magic-string)		; in rmime.el, if you have it

(defcustom unrmail-mbox-format 'mboxrd
  "The mbox format that `unrmail' should produce.
These formats separate messages using lines that start with \"From \".
Therefore any lines in the message bodies that start with \"From \"
must be quoted.  The `mboxo' format just prepends a \">\" to such lines.
This is not reversible, because given a line starting with \">From \" in
an mboxo file, it is not possible to know whether the original had a \">\"
or not.  The `mboxrd' format avoids this by also quoting \">From \" as
\">>From \", and so on.  For this reason, mboxrd is recommended.

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