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[Mutt] #3077: Bug in doc/mbox.man aka mbox(5)



#3077: Bug in doc/mbox.man aka mbox(5)

 {{{
 Hi,

 while looking at Debian bug #485611, I noticed that mutt's mbox(5)
 manpage claims the date in From_ lines would be in date-time format as
 defined in RFC2822, whereas it is actually in asctime(3) format [1].
 The patch below fixes this.


 diff -r 1e8ca708a52f doc/mbox.man
 --- a/doc/mbox.man      Wed Jun 11 22:45:14 2008 -0700
 +++ b/doc/mbox.man      Sat Jun 14 17:45:43 2008 +0200
 @@ -36,7 +36,8 @@
  .B addr-spec
  as defined in \fBRFC2822\fP 3.4.1. The date is expected to be
  .B date-time
 -as defined in \fBRFC2822\fP 3.3.
 +as output by
 +.BR asctime(3) .
  For compatibility reasons with legacy software, two-digit years
  greater than or equal to 70 should be interpreted as the years
  1970+, while two-digit years less than 70 should be interpreted as
 @@ -168,6 +169,7 @@
  .BR flock (2),
  .BR link (2),
  .BR stat (2),
 +.BR asctime (3),
  .BR maildir (5),
  .BR mmdf (5),
  .BR RFC822 ,


 Christoph

 [1] see from.c, and http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/mbox.html
 }}}

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3077>