On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:02:23 -0700, Dan Stromberg wrote: > For the archive: This assumes traditional mbox. A SysV-ish sendmail, > for example, may not like it.
sendmail itself doesn't deal with mailboxes or spool files; that task is left to the local delivery agent (e.g. mail.local or procmail). To clarify: the awk script assumes that any line beginning with "From " is the start of a message; any matching lines in the message body must be escaped. sendmail will do this if the mailer has the "E" flag (F=...E...). If lines beginning with "From " are only escaped when preceded by a blank line, you need to maintain a flag which is set when the current line is the first line in the file or preceded by a blank line and clear otherwise. This is the behaviour of sendmail's mail.local, and of procmail when invoked with the -Y flag (this is the default when sendmail is configured with FEATURE(local_procmail)) or when no Content-Length header is present. If lines beginning with "From " aren't escaped (relying upon a Content-Length header), you need to find some other approach (which probably won't involve traditional line-oriented tools). You also need to be really careful when processing such files. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
