Philip -- ...and then Philip Mak said... % % On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, David T-G wrote: % % > Your MDA will also escape any ^From_ in the body to avoid confusion with % > a message separator line -- if it's delivering to an mbox file. % % That doesn't seem to be true. For example, in one of my sent-mail files % from pine, I saw this line (there was no ">" before it): % % >From 66.28.28.22: Destination Host Unreachable
Very interesting... % % pine knows not to recognize it as a "From" line, so I'm thinking that pine % makes sure that it also has a date like "Mon Nov 26 06:33:50 2001" on it. Hmmm... It certainly might really do that, but it might also honor the Content-Length: header and only look for a new message at <n> bytes forward of the beginning of the last one. I thought that only Sun's dtmail did that (and I know that it does it buggily, which is why everyone in the Sun circles recommends that you turn off that feature and go back to seeing ^>From_ in the message body since dtmail doesn't speak maildir). You might see if there's a C-L: header and, if so, copy a couple of test messages with this one in the middle off to a test mailbox, get rid of the header, and see if it breaks... % My current best guess for a regexp to match a message separator line is % this: % % /^From (\s*[^ ]+\s+... ... .. ..:..:.. ....)/ % % but I'm wondering if there might be obscure cases in which it breaks. I dunno; I've only ever been simple enough to have been fooled by your example above :-) :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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