Making the /^From / detection a little smarter avoids false alarms
created by ^From in the body of the message. I found that I have this
problem on mboxes that were created from my sent mail, not having
traversed through a mail server. All I look for is a time stamp, but
this could be extended to look for the email address of the sender
before the time stamp. For example, the line:
From Tuesday to Wednesday is when I eat cheese.
Would not be confused with a valid /^From /, but the line:
From 10:00 to 12:00 is when I eat herring.
would be. The following patch was enough for me so that is where I stopped.
--- /usr/bin/mb2md 2008-05-05 18:08:27.000000000 -0600
+++ mb2md 2010-08-10 20:17:34.149706012 -0600
@@ -1002,7 +1002,7 @@
# exchange possible Windows EOL (CRLF)
with Unix EOL (LF)
$_ =~ s/\r\n$/\n/;
- if ( /^From /
+ if ( /^From .*\d\d:\d\d.*/
&& $previous_line_was_empty
&& (!defined $contentlength)
)
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