On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Tim Tyler wrote:

> Qpopper, Roy, & Michael
>   Ok, Michael's idea that the top of the mailbox file start with "From: " is
> happening 99.9...% of the time,

Uh, no.

Each new message starts "From foo@bar"

From: foo@bar is in the message body itself (and headers are part of the
message body, from a SMTP point of view.)

> but in the rare cases that the mailbox file
> gets corrupted, I believe there is no colon in the From header.  However, I
> will have to wait until the next corruption to prove this.

When this happens, qpopper and any other program will have trouble. Pine
manifests this kind of corruption by saying the mailbox is empty.

AB

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