On 2026-01-25 20:27:35 -0500, Kurt Hackenberg wrote: > When the new code slurps it all in, how does it know where to stop? Does it > count on recognizing date-time syntax? What if that syntax is unusual?
Perhaps that should be configurable by the user, with unusual regexp typically used with folder-hook or the -F option for old mbox files. > Does Mutt have any regression testing of its mbox parsing? > > This change is to handle these sample mbox From_ lines from issue 433 > (indented here for safety): > > From [email protected] (comment) Sat Jul 27 03:26:47 1996 > From u3 <[email protected]> Mon Aug 12 14:43:33 1996 > > Wow, I've never seen that. I have even one with "From Sun,07 Jul 1996.01:27:59". Mutt 2.3 silently ignores the whole contents starting at this line. I suspect that at that time, most software did not care about the exact format and just considered the first 5 characters. In any case, *all* lines starting with "From " in the body were quoted. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
