On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 08:15:27PM +1100, Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 22.03.13 12:54, Derek Martin wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 09:04:21AM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > > > Mutt itself *doesn't* put a blank line there, if you S[ave] or > > > C[opy] messages to a new mbox the messages have no blank lines > > > before the 'From '. > > When I save a message to another mailbox, mutt always leaves a blank > line between messages. (Sometimes there are two blank lines - one is > then presumably part of the message.) I have 1092 mailboxes, many with > thousands of messages. Most of them receive mail only by save or copy. > A quick awk script showed one apparent exception to this mutt behaviour > in the 1596 messages in one of those saved-by-mutt-only mailboxes, but > it was a /^From / occurring within an attachment. > Well I first actually tried it and saw no blank line.
I've now looked throught my archive (1845 mailboxes) and most of them, saved with mutt, using S[ave], seem *not* to have a blank line either. There are some with blank lines between but I suspect that's because of migrating back and forth between various formats quite a lot over the years. Certainly my current mutt 1.5.21 doesn't put a blank line in there and it's quite standard from the Ubuntu repositories (though I suppose they *might* have done something funny to it). -- Chris Green
