From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/45773 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: "From " -> ">From " in imap mail-source avoidable? Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 14:45:15 -0400 Organization: What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid? Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1027363571 27735 127.0.0.1 (22 Jul 2002 18:46:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 18:46:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17WiC9-0007DD-00 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 20:46:10 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 17WiBa-00007h-00; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 13:45:34 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 22 Jul 2002 13:45:59 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA19702 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 13:45:47 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 27236 invoked by alias); 22 Jul 2002 18:45:18 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 27231 invoked from network); 22 Jul 2002 18:45:18 -0000 Original-Received: from multivac.student.cwru.edu (HELO multivac.cwru.edu) (@129.22.96.25) by gnus.org with SMTP; 22 Jul 2002 18:45:17 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 11395 invoked by uid 500); 22 Jul 2002 18:45:38 -0000 Original-To: "Helmut Waitzmann" (usenet) In-Reply-To: (Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "Mon, 22 Jul 2002 20:38:04 +0200") Mail-Copies-To: nobody Mail-Followup-To: "Helmut Waitzmann" (usenet) , ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45773 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45773 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) wrote: > I guess that a new function along the lines of > nnmail-process-*-mail-format could easily be written. In fact, now I > see that there is nnmail-process-maildir-mail-format which kind of > suggests that it needn't be a single file. The *source* needn't be a single file, but then all messages are dumped into a single file, and FAIK, there may be a good reason for this. >> Can we find the size of a whole message before adding it to the >> file? > > Ah, I think the mbox format currently uses a Content-length or Lines > header, if present. So it could just be added to the file by imap. > Cool. I'd like to avoid destructive modification of the message, if possible. But then, I don't personally use this code anyway. paul