[Patches] Unix Mailboxes don't work quite right.

[M.-A. Lemburg]

John Viega wrote:
> 
> The method "_isrealfromline" in mailbox.UnixMailbox doesn't handle some
> real email messages.  I've noticed this by comparing Python's notion of
> a Mailbox with that of real mailers.  In this particular case, one of my
> real mailboxes has several messages without a time zone offset included,
> and Python doesn't treat those from lines as the start of a message.

Those messages are likely to be spam :-)

> 
> I've looked around, and it seems that real mailers seem to treat any
> sequence of "\nFrom " as a from line.
> 
> With that in mind, I'd suggest the following changes:
> 
> Delete lines 104-113.
> Change "_isrealfromline" to:
> 
> def _isrealfromline(self, line): return 1
> 
> If people want the original behavior for whatever reason, they can
> override it, but this change would make Python much more compatible with
> mailers, etc.

Why not fix the RE to also match the messages you are seeing 
your mail box file instead of removing the check completely ?

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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