severity 507465 wishlist retitle 507465 mb2md: Please provide an option to tweak mail separation detection. thanks
Putting back the submitter in the loop, please Cc submitters, or use the [EMAIL PROTECTED] alias… Bruno De Fraine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (03/12/2008): >> This script intentionally looks for a blank line in between messages >> in the mbox file. There is no such requirement that I know of; > > There *is* certainly mention of a blank line in the first few > references that turn up when looking for an mbox file specification: > > http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/mbox.html > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbox Err, quoting qmail as a reference looks bogus to me… Anyway, looking at e.g. RFC 4155 (which points to qmail's site too, sigh, with typo, sigh again), we have: ,--[ Appendix A. The "default" mbox Database Format ]-- | The "default" mbox database format uses a linear sequence of Internet | messages, with each message being immediately prefaced by a separator | line, and being terminated by an empty line. More specifically: | | … | | o Each message in the database MUST be terminated by an empty | line, containing a single end-of-line marker. `-- So you're right. > > As is, I got 30% fewer messages in the new Maildir, and lots of > > messages were actually two or three messages run together. The > > result is so garbled I wonder if anyone else has ever used this > > script... Requesting an option to make the newline between two sucessive mails optional makes anyway sense to me, adjusting bug severity and title accordingly. Mraw, KiBi.
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