[Patch] mbox From_ Format Generalization (Tiny Change)

[Patch] mbox From_ Format Generalization (Tiny Change)

[Kurt B. Kaiser]

I downloaded a list archive for use with nndoc and was missing 5% of
the articles.  Turns out that an early version of the mailer was
using a tab between the sender and the timestamp.  This was later
changed to two spaces, then one space.  However, the mbox format
apparently doesn't care, it just wants whitespace:
 
 http://www.umanitoba.ca/cgi-bin/man.cgi?section=5&topic=mbox

Once changed, gnus found all the articles.

Maybe this should be addressed in rmail.el, also? (no pun intended)

Index: message.el
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/gnus/lisp/message.el,v
retrieving revision 6.298
diff -c -u -p -r6.298 message.el
--- message.el	3 Feb 2003 19:37:57 -0000	6.298
+++ message.el	12 Feb 2003 20:40:15 -0000
@@ -1319,7 +1319,7 @@ no, only reply back to the author."
      ;; We want to match the results of any of these manglings.
      ;; The following regexp rejects names whose first characters are
      ;; obviously bogus, but after that anything goes.
-     "\\([^\0-\b\n-\r\^?].*\\)? "
+     "\\([^\0-\b\n-\r\^?].*\\)?"
 
      ;; The time the message was sent.
      "\\([^\0-\r \^?]+\\) +"		; day of the week


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Re: [Patch] mbox From_ Format Generalization (Tiny Change)

[Kai Großjohann]

Committed.

Who's doing rmail.el?
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Re: [Patch] mbox From_ Format Generalization (Tiny Change)

[Kurt B. Kaiser]

kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Who's doing rmail.el?

I don't have a checkout of emacs, but I suppose I could work up a 
patch, if that's what you're looking for.  However, the rmail.el
code is exactly the same, search on 'bogus' :)

Seems to me that the xxx-unix-mail-delimiter should simply ignore
everything between the timestamp and the end of line, and also it
doesn't seem to be able to recognize RFC822 military time zones
like 23:59:59 Z, but OTOH it's been in place all these years.... 

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