Re: broken "^From " header
Hi Ionel, et. al.,
* Patrick Shanahan (WideGlide@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote thusly unto the masses:
> * Ionel Mugurel Ciobica <tgakic@xxxxxxxxxxx> [06-15-04 09:32]:
> >
> > I use mutt since many years now. I noticed a few months back that mutt
> > can't read an e-mail where the first line is broken in two, something
> > like that:
> >
> > | From PLOHN@xxxxxx
> > | Thu Jun 10 00:34:34 2004
> >
> ....
> > Is there a way to fix that in mutt (or .procmailrc)?
>
> man formail
This should help in converting the older broken emails into a correct
format. I agree with some of the aforementioned threaders in that this
isn't a permanent fix. There is something in your MDA [be it procmail or
something else] that is splitting up the lines.
To convert, taken from the formail manpage under examples:
formail -ds <old_mailbox >>new_mailbox
An interesting thought exercise is would be to take a few of the
broken emails put them in a folder, call it emailcheck and then issue
the follow:
formail -X 'From ' < emailcheck | od -c | less
I'm wondering if it's only a newline or something is inserting a
carriage-return\linefeed.
Ben
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