While testing the current mailutils, I tried a few things, and found
what look like two bugs in the mbox read stuff.
Attached are two files, t1.mboxrd and t1_mu.dotmail. I created the first
one outside mailutils, and used movemail to read it and write the
second, converting mbox to dotmail.
I believe these days mailutils treats all mbox files as the Rahul Dhesi
variant, and, on read, unescapes message lines that start with ">From ".
In this case, it unescaped the first two such lines, but not the third.
And, in the output dotmail file, the message has a blank line added at
the end, before the dot line that marks the end of the message. I guess
the mbox read code treated the blank line after the message in the mbox
file as part of the message, which it's not -- the blank line is part of
mbox format.
The extra blank line doesn't show up when movemail converts other
formats to dotmail, so it's probably not a bug in the dotmail code.From nobody@nowhere.invalid Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970
From: <j...@blow.nope>
To: <al...@flyingcloud.ship>
Date: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 (UTC)
>From the beginning of time, mbox has been lame.
>From the beginning of time, mbox has been lame.
>From the beginning of time, mbox has been lame.
moo
.moo
.
From: <j...@blow.nope>
To: <al...@flyingcloud.ship>
Date: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 (UTC)
From the beginning of time, mbox has been lame.
From the beginning of time, mbox has been lame.
>From the beginning of time, mbox has been lame.
moo
..moo
..
.
