Re: Email addresses with spaces
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on 05-29-2008, Scott Kern wrote:
> > Thank you for your comments, they got me thinking.
> >
> > I changed to getmail and configured it to pass the message directly to
> > procmail. Also, I configured unixfrom = True.
> >
> > According to getmail's log it passed the message as
> > email_bounce@xxxxxxxxxx, but it showed up in the mbox folder as
> > email bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx So it looks like procmail uses Return-Path: to
> > set the From_ line. The man page for fetchmail says that it uses
> > Return-Path first.
> >
> > If changing getmail from unixfrom to arguments = ("-f", "%(sender)"),
> > doesn't fix this, then I'll see what happens if I have getmail put the
> > messages directly into the mail folder.
> >
> > My new question is why mutt doesn't properly display these message in
> > the index? Instead is merges it with the message before it.
on 05-29-2008, Gary Johnson wrote:
> The first line of messages that are stored in mbox format begins
> with "From ", followed by the sender's address. If the sender's
> address is in an invalid format, it probably doesn't match the
> pattern that mutt uses to search for those lines in the mailbox.
> Mutt doesn't recognize the line as the beginning of a new message
> and considers the text part of the preceding message.
>
> Regards,
> Gary
Gary,
Thank you. I suspected that the regex looked for letters, numbers and
periods, then an @, then more letters, numbers and periods, but couldn't
find anything explicitly stating such.
I was hoping there was a way to config mutt to handle that, but I
haven't found anything that does that and I don't think there is.
I have this narrowed down to the MDA. Now to figure out how to make
that behave.
Scott