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Re: mutt/2605: Date parsing - first (From) line



The following reply was made to PR mutt/2605; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Mutt Developers <mutt-dev@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: bug-any@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: mutt/2605: Date parsing - first (From) line
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 01:07:41 +0100

 On 2006-12-10 20:28:01 +0100, no-reply@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
 > If the first line of an email/mbox whatever is:
 >   From - Thu, 12 Feb 2002 05:30:54
 > the mail won't be displayed (in index view). No warning will be
 > displayed also. The mail can be lost.
 
 This "From" line is invalid. So, this is not a bug. Accepting it would
 be a bug since this could lead to truncated mail (as such a line could
 wrongly be recognized as a mail separator).
 
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