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From: larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen)
Subject: Re: Unix mbox format
Date: 03 Mar 1996 13:40:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <w8sag1yjqot.fsf@eistla.ifi.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Hallvard B Furuseth's message of Sat, 2 Mar 1996 20:07:46 +0100

Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> writes:

> Hrrm.  That's multi-line.  Try "[^\n :]+:".  Or maybe "[^\n :]+ *:",
> which is wrong by rfc822 but wouldn't surprise me anyway.

I'm currently using "[^\000-\037\177-\377 :]+:", which is what rfc822
says is a legal header name.  Perhaps that's too strict, though.
Maybe "[^\n :]+ *:" might be a better choice...  Yes, I think I'll go
with that instead.

> Just be sure you are not too restrictive.  It's better to split some
> letters that contain "From " in the body than concatenate two letters.
> If the first letter is long and uninteresting, the user won't even see
> the second.

Yes, it's much better to split a bit too much than incorrectly append
one mail to another even once.

-- 
  "Yes.  The journey through the human heart 
     would have to wait until some other time."


      reply	other threads:[~1996-03-03 12:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-02-26 12:49 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-02-26 15:21 ` michael lamoureux
1996-02-26 21:05   ` Jason L Tibbitts III
1996-02-27 10:31   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-02-28  0:48     ` michael lamoureux
1996-03-02 19:07 ` Hallvard B Furuseth
1996-03-03 12:40   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]

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