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Re: broken "^From " header



Am I seeing double?

 - Dave


On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 10:13:12AM EDT, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 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
> 
> It simply ignore this e-mail and if it is the only e-mail in the file it
> just shown nothing. If other mails are present, it is just appended to
> the previous e-mail as the continuation text of that e-mail.
> 
> I receive about 30-50 e-mails like that every week and the only way I
> know to fix it is to join the two lines in an editor. (J in vim).
> Half of this e-mails are spam but the other half are messages from
> discutions lists. To identify the broken ^From header I do this:
> 
> grep -a '^ [MTWFS][ouehra][neduit] [JFMAMSOND][aepuc][nbrynlgptvc] [ 
> 0-9][0-9] [0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9] [12][09][0-9][0-9]' mail-file
> 
> Is there a way to fix that in mutt (or .procmailrc)?
> 
> I use mutt 1.5.5.1 from Debian package.
> 
> 
> Thank you for your help.
> 
> Ionel

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