[ David Champion Wrote On Tue 27.Nov'12 at 10:18:32 GMT ] > * On 25 Nov 2012, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > > > > > > In the end the new version of the message is generated by formail, so > > > it's subject to formail's limitations, if it has any. (I don't know of > > > any.) It would be possible to update the python script to handle the > > > rewrite with python core modules instead of depending on formail. Maybe > > > that's worth a try. > > ... > > I am using mbox for all folders currently. I will send the mail to you > > off-list. > > I took at look at the messages you sent, and was able to reproduce the > problem with one of them but not the other. It's not clear to me why > it's happening from within mutt. From without, it works fine. The > script runs formail using os.popen2 -- which is deprecated, and causes > an annoying deprecation warning too. This could be entangled in the > problem. > > I changed the script to use python's email module instead of calling out > to formail (which was a quick hack when I wrote this last week). It > seems to work fine now. > > It also deals with the mbox/maildir (potential) problem, by writing in > mbox format only when the input was in mbox.
David thank you very much indeed, it works beautifully. I really appreciate you giving up your time to create it and modify it. I'm sure it will be prove useful to plenty of people. Best wishes, Jamie
