From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/45772 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-15?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: "From " -> ">From " in imap mail-source avoidable? Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 20:38:04 +0200 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 1027363197 26739 127.0.0.1 (22 Jul 2002 18:39:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 18:39:57 +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 17Wi66-0006x9-00 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 20:39:55 +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 17Wi5A-0008RH-00; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 13:38:56 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 22 Jul 2002 13:39:21 -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 NAA19680 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 13:39:08 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 27025 invoked by alias); 22 Jul 2002 18:38:38 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 27017 invoked from network); 22 Jul 2002 18:38:38 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by gnus.org with SMTP; 22 Jul 2002 18:38:38 -0000 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id g6MIcAb25843; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 20:38:10 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id UAA23233; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 20:38:05 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id AD0E23B221; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 20:38:04 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: "Helmut Waitzmann" (usenet) Mail-Followup-To: "Helmut Waitzmann" (usenet) , ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (prj@po.cwru.edu's message of "Mon, 22 Jul 2002 13:50:34 -0400") Original-Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45772 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45772 prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes: > Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) wrote: >> Maybe mail-sources could be changed to use a Babyl file or an MMDF >> file instead of an mbox file. > > I don't know the format of those files, but what are our > constraints? Must multiple messages be represented in a single > file? 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. > 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. kai --=20 A large number of young women don't trust men with beards. (BFBS Radio)