russellb...@gmail.com wrote in <201812092004.wb9k4lgw026...@randytool.net>: | I get this message: | | MBOX mailbox contains non-conforming From_ line(s)! | Message boundaries may have been falsely detected! | Setting variable *mbox-rfc4155* and reopen should improve the result. | If so, make changes permanent: "copy * SOME-FILE". Then unset *mbox-rfc\ | 4155*
There was another (partial) manual review already, and the manual of the next release will state that the real healing requires the v15 release rewrite: messages should be entirely recreated when such a flaw is detected. It (will) then depend(s) on the user settings what this means. |when I read some of my mail archives. I reviewed rfc4155. I think my |>From lines conform. For instance: For now, when newly creating messages, we automatically choose a MIME encoding to overcome the flow (by default quoted-printable, but base64 is the other option). We do not yet (again) support the old style way of simply prepending the ^From with a >, as in ^'From' -> ^'>From', even though the code is obviously there (since it is used to apply the object of this thread). I know especially UNIX old-hands and (other) english speaking people dislike this MUA for this (one more reason), but ... For me a mailbox is a database, and you need special software to look into a database, anyway. It is true, you cannot simply grep/zgrep/bzgrep/xzgrep/zstdgrep in mailboxes generated by this MUA, but you will likely not be able anyway: if you send messages with attachments, you get MIME, if you talk with a person who speakes Unicode, you get MIME, if you talk (with someone who) and use(s) S/MIME or OpenPGP, you get MIME, and if you are subscribed to a list which uses the mailman list manager, you likely get base64 encoded american english, and thus you get MIME, too. Conclusion: you need special software to look into a database. (I mean, there may be MUAs which generate >From not MIME encoding even for any of the mentioned, but then that becomes a subject to a film by Woody Allen, imho.) (And yes, i know we now have internationalised mail headers, so subtract Unicode from the above at your will, Mr. Bell.) | From russellb...@gmail.com Sun Dec 9 10:52:33 MST 2018 | | Any hints about what's wrong with it? | | I followed the instructions. s-mailx prepended 42 (of 135 |>From lines with a > , which made them part of the prior message. For |instance, the lines from 2 consecutive messages: | | From russellb...@gmail.com Fri Nov 16 10:24:25 MST 2018 |>From russellb...@gmail.com Sat Dec 8 12:31:43 MST 2018 | | I get it! The day-of-month is a single digit! I just read |the man page for ctime (the authority rfc4155 cites): it returns |unpadded day-of-month. | | J'accuse! Le rue est grise et triste. |russell bell --End of <201812092004.wb9k4lgw026...@randytool.net> --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
