On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 17:48:15 -0400, David Bremner <david at tethera.net> wrote: > From: David Bremner <bremner at debian.org> > > It seems that it has always been an error to try to parse an mbox > format file with gmime without calling g_mime_parser_set_scan_from.
At least for the time being I think we should apply http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle to this case and accept email files that start with 'From '... > This change reads the first 5 bytes of the file, and if they are "From ", > declares the file to be an mbox. an alternative to this is not to declare file as an mbox one but if first line starts with 'From ' skip that line. Whether this is a good idea or not I've already thought an implementation how to do this which I'll post as an RFC patch in next 12 hours. Tomi
