On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 08:12:48PM -0800, Mike Erickson wrote: > A few times, I've been going through old mail in one of my mailboxes and > noticed a mail with no subject. Opening it up reveals an entire email > message, headers and all, in the body. I'm using sendmail, procmail, > biff n and mbox format. Is this mutt-related?
No, more than likely it's mailx-related. Procmail escapes 'From' lines with that damn '>' symbol, and if you read the mbox with mailx, when it writes it back it treats it as a delimiter and assumes that's where the message body begins. Since it's usually the first or second line of the header, sure enough you're left with no message subject and the rest of the headers plus the real body in the body of the message. The funny thing is that mailx can't properly read a mbox that it's destroyed in this manner either. ^_^ You can get the mailbox back easily enough... go in and delete the added blank lines. I've been about to file a bug against the Debian mailx package for forever about this after I finally figured out what was corrupting my mbox file(s). Poking around in Google leads to the fact that it's a known problem with mailx on a variety of systems and distributions. Debian would call it an RC bug, I'm sure. Great, the Woody freeze is tomorrow and I'm contemplating filing an RC bug. <sigh> Now, of course, if you never use mailx, then I'm all wet and you have some other problem. ^_^ -- Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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