Re: Unix mbox format

[michael lamoureux <lamour@engin.umich.edu>]

 "lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

lars> The next line has to start with "[^ :]+:" for Gnus to consider
lars> it a real delimiter.  (It's reasonable to assume that a header
lars> line should follow the delimiter.)

Well, I think the next line is the From line (the one without the ":")

Here's a brief clip from my VM INBOX file (I prepended a space to all
of the lines, for paranoia's sake).

...
 The release is just one short month away, and it should be as bug free
 as possible.  
  
 -- 
   "Yes.  The journey through the human heart 
      would have to wait until some other time."
  
 From ding-request@ifi.uio.no Mon Feb 26 07:57:36 1996
 Received: from srvr7.engin.umich.edu (root@srvr7.engin.umich.edu [141.212.2.69]) by srvr5.engin.umich.edu (8.7.4/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA17221 for <lamour@srvr5.engin.umich.edu>; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 07:57:35 -0500 (EST)
 Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by srvr7.engin.umich.edu (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA01287 for <lamour@engin.umich.edu>; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 07:56:25 -0500 (EST)
...


lars> Is this a bad idea?  A good idea?  Should we use a different
lars> regexp to match header lines?

Probably.


fyi,
Michael