[Patches] Unix Mailboxes don't work quite right.
Fredrik Lundh
Fredrik Lundh" <effbot@telia.com
Sun, 18 Jun 2000 12:56:12 +0200
MAL wrote:
> > 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.
>=20
> Why not fix the RE to also match the messages you are seeing=20
> your mail box file instead of removing the check completely ?
maybe because it doesn't really make much sense to look for either
"From ", or "From " followed by something else?
also see:
http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/2.0/relnotes/demo/content-length.htm=
l
Essentially the only safe way to parse that file format is to =
consider
all lines which begin with the characters "From '' (From-space), =
which
are preceded by a blank line or beginning-of-file, to be the =
division
between messages. /.../
Some people will tell you that you should do stricter parsing on =
those
lines: check for user names and dates and so on. They are wrong.
</F>