I looked at a mbox that was entirely created under Ubuntu and there are blank lines at the end of each message before the From line.
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 03:28:29PM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 01:22:56AM +1100, Erik Christiansen wrote: > > On 23.03.13 12:40, Chris Green wrote: > > > 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. > > > > That is weird, because I'm using: > > Mutt 1.5.21+145 (2a1c5d3dd72e) (2012-12-30) > > but have used a whole string of older mutts over the years. And I've > > never made (or heard of) a related config setting which could explain > > the behavioural difference. > > > > > 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). > > > > So your mailboxes, viewed in vim or similar, have the /^From / line > > immediately following the last non-blank line of the previous message!!? > > That's something I've never seen ... in decades, mostly with mutt. > > > Here, I've just sent myself three test E-Mails and have saved them to a > mailbox called test, here is the result:- > > From MAILER-DAEMON Sat Mar 23 15:19:20 2013 > Return-Path: <ch...@zbmc.eu> > X-Original-To: chris > Delivered-To: ch...@zbmc.eu > Received: by chris.zbmc.eu (Postfix, from userid 1000) > id 94F62380255; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:19:20 +0000 (GMT) > Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:19:20 +0000 > From: Chris Green <ch...@isbd.co.uk> > To: Chris Green <ch...@zbmc.eu> > Subject: Test > Message-ID: <20130323151920.GC10234@chris> > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) > Content-Length: 31 > Lines: 3 > > This is test 3 > > -- > Chris Green > From MAILER-DAEMON Sat Mar 23 15:18:53 2013 > Return-Path: <ch...@zbmc.eu> > X-Original-To: chris > Delivered-To: ch...@zbmc.eu > Received: by chris.zbmc.eu (Postfix, from userid 1000) > id B4267380255; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:18:53 +0000 (GMT) > Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:18:53 +0000 > From: Chris Green <ch...@isbd.co.uk> > To: Chris Green <ch...@zbmc.eu> > Subject: Test1 > Message-ID: <20130323151853.GA10234@chris> > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) > Status: O > Content-Length: 31 > Lines: 3 > > This is test 1 > > -- > Chris Green > From MAILER-DAEMON Sat Mar 23 15:19:06 2013 > Return-Path: <ch...@zbmc.eu> > X-Original-To: chris > Delivered-To: ch...@zbmc.eu > Received: by chris.zbmc.eu (Postfix, from userid 1000) > id 12196380255; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:19:06 +0000 (GMT) > Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:19:06 +0000 > From: Chris Green <ch...@isbd.co.uk> > To: Chris Green <ch...@zbmc.eu> > Subject: Test2 > Message-ID: <20130323151905.GB10234@chris> > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) > Status: O > Content-Length: 31 > Lines: 3 > > This is test 2 > > -- > Chris Green > > > I saved them separately (i.e. I didn't do a tag-save), nothing else > special at all, as you can see I didn't save them in the order I > sent them. > > 'mutt -v' returns:- > > chris$ mutt -v > Mutt 1.5.21 (2010-09-15) > Copyright (C) 1996-2009 Michael R. Elkins and others. > Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'. > Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it > under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details. > > System: Linux 3.5.0-26-generic (x86_64) > ncurses: ncurses 5.9.20110404 (compiled with 5.9) > libidn: 1.25 (compiled with 1.25) > hcache backend: tokyocabinet 1.4.47 > Compile options: > -DOMAIN > +DEBUG > -HOMESPOOL +USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK +DL_STANDALONE +USE_FCNTL > -USE_FLOCK > +USE_POP +USE_IMAP +USE_SMTP > -USE_SSL_OPENSSL +USE_SSL_GNUTLS +USE_SASL +USE_GSS > +HAVE_GETADDRINFO > +HAVE_REGCOMP -USE_GNU_REGEX > +HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_START_COLOR +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD +HAVE_BKGDSET > +HAVE_CURS_SET +HAVE_META +HAVE_RESIZETERM > +CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_PGP +CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_SMIME > +CRYPT_BACKEND_GPGME > -EXACT_ADDRESS -SUN_ATTACHMENT > +ENABLE_NLS -LOCALES_HACK +COMPRESSED +HAVE_WC_FUNCS > +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET +HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR > +HAVE_ICONV -ICONV_NONTRANS +HAVE_LIBIDN +HAVE_GETSID +USE_HCACHE > -ISPELL > SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail" > MAILPATH="/var/mail" > PKGDATADIR="/usr/share/mutt" > SYSCONFDIR="/etc" > EXECSHELL="/bin/sh" > MIXMASTER="mixmaster" > To contact the developers, please mail to <mutt-...@mutt.org>. > To report a bug, please visit http://bugs.mutt.org/. > > misc/am-maintainer-mode > features/ifdef > features/xtitles > features/trash-folder > features/purge-message > features/imap_fast_trash > features/sensible_browser_position > features-old/patch-1.5.4.vk.pgp_verbose_mime > features/compressed-folders > features/compressed-folders.debian > debian-specific/Muttrc > debian-specific/Md.etc_mailname_gethostbyname.diff > debian-specific/use_usr_bin_editor.diff > debian-specific/correct_docdir_in_man_page.diff > debian-specific/dont_document_not_present_features.diff > debian-specific/document_debian_defaults > debian-specific/assumed_charset-compat > debian-specific/467432-write_bcc.patch > debian-specific/566076-build_doc_adjustments.patch > misc/define-pgp_getkeys_command.diff > misc/gpg.rc-paths > misc/smime.rc > upstream/531430-imapuser.patch > upstream/537818-emptycharset.patch > upstream/543467-thread-segfault.patch > upstream/542817-smimekeys-tmpdir.patch > upstream/548577-gpgme-1.2.patch > upstream/553321-ansi-escape-segfault.patch > upstream/568295-references.patch > upstream/547980-smime_keys-chaining.patch > upstream/528233-readonly-open.patch > upstream/228671-pipe-mime.patch > upstream/383769-score-match.patch > upstream/578087-header-strchr.patch > upstream/603288-split-fetches.patch > upstream/537061-dont-recode-saved-attachments.patch > upstream/608706-fix-spelling-errors.patch > upstream/620854-pop3-segfault.patch > upstream/611412-bts-regexp.patch > upstream/624058-gnutls-deprecated-set-priority.patch > upstream/624085-gnutls-deprecated-verify-peers.patch > upstream/584138-mx_update_context-segfault.patch > upstream/619216-gnutls-CN-validation.patch > upstream/611410-no-implicit_autoview-for-text-html.patch > upstream/path_max > mutt.org > > Are all those patches listed Ubuntu/debian additions? > > -- > Chris Green --
