* Kyle Wheeler <kyle-m...@memoryhole.net> [01-20-09 17:17]: > On Tuesday, January 20 at 05:03 PM, quoth Patrick Shanahan: > >While I have no doubt that you are speaking fact, I have been using > >mbox (with mutt/procmail/postfix) for > 10 years starting with > >Mandrake 5.0 and have not experienced mailbox corruption/garbling ever > >to memory. BUT, I am Irish :^) > > HEH, well, it's all a question of how often you have lines that begin > with From in the middle of a line (and how you define "corruption"). > > What I've found is that either my editor or mutt simply inserts a > space in front of From lines, and then as part of format-flowed > display (I think), mutt removes that space. > > But, let's do a test: > > >From line > > Does the previous line have a > in front of it?
yes :^) > It didn't when I composed this message (it also didn't have a space in > front of it either). If it does for you, then technically this message > has been corrupted. Then I guess I have probably had a lot of corruption that I didn't even realize :^). But the posts were not broken apart or grabled as to be unreadable or unusable. but the ">" was inserted by procmail, If there is no Content-Length: field or the -Y option has been specified and procmail appends to regular mailfolders, any lines in the body of the mes‐ sage that look like postmarks are prepended with >' (disarms bogus mailheaders). The regular expression that is used to search for these postmarks is: \nFrom ' and, in this case should be deamed harmless. >From a purist standpoint, this is indeed a change (corruption). But much less so than mailing list software that mangles the "Reply-To:" header :^) but that is not an mbox problem. I guess I just do not see a great enough problem to change, but I *am* getting along in *years*. -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org
