Re: Gnus, movemail, POP3, trailing empty lines

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>]

"St. Suika Fenderson Roberts" <wrobert2@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu> writes:

> On the subject, a while back I was playing with my .forward file, and
> found that gnus would properly handle mails split by `^From ...' instead
> of the more standard `\n\nFrom ...' (I found this out by munging things
> until I found a way to echo a bare `\n' onto the end of each mail :/ )
> 
> Has the code changed since?

Yes.  The Emacs regexp handler overflowed on the complex regexp used
to identify the "From " headers.  (And it didn't recognize some of
them.)

nnmail now uses a simpler (ie., more complicated) rule; involving
"\n\nFrom". 

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  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen