On Wed, Jan 28, 2026 at 06:45:47PM -0500, Kurt Hackenberg wrote:
On Wed, Jan 28, 2026 at 06:30:51PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote:In practice, software that attempts to read almost all mbox has to do heuristics.Which Mutt has always done, very reliably.Yes, Mutt seems reliable -- and I think it looks for a date-time at the end of a From_ line. Kevin probably knows better than I do.
Yes, it currently requires the date-time at the end. And it stores the value in HEADER->received, which can be used for sorting and display in the index via %(). The original reverse scanner purpose was to address ticket 433 and the exampes therein. -- Kevin J. McCarthy GPG Fingerprint: 8975 A9B3 3AA3 7910 385C 5308 ADEF 7684 8031 6BDA
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