From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/5424 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Unix mbox format Date: 03 Mar 1996 13:40:02 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway Sender: larsi@ifi.uio.no Message-ID: References: <199603021907.UAA01856@durin.uio.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035146029 32754 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:33:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:33:49 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id FAA05173 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 1996 05:17:01 -0800 Original-Received: from eistla.ifi.uio.no (4867@eistla.ifi.uio.no [129.240.94.29]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Sun, 3 Mar 1996 13:40:04 +0100 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by eistla.ifi.uio.no ; Sun, 3 Mar 1996 13:40:03 +0100 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Hallvard B Furuseth's message of Sat, 2 Mar 1996 20:07:46 +0100 Original-Lines: 21 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5424 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5424 Hallvard B Furuseth 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."