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Article #265Re: mbox format problem
From: Uday Reddy
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 23:41
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 23:41
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On 2/11/2011 9:14 PM, José Manuel García-Patos wrote: > > So, my question is: Was there something I overlooked there, is it > really a VM bug, or none of the above? Thanks in advance. The VM code is in the function vm-find-leading-message-separator in the file vm-folder.el. All that it looks for is "From " at the beginning of the line and some sequence of digits at the end of the line. The RFC 4155 is unfortunately very loose. It doesn't guarantee the leading separator line to be a particular format. So, VM can't assume too much about the format of the separator line. It is common practice to put a ">" escape marker for any line that begins with "From" right after a blank line. If you do that, then VM should be able to handle it fine. Let me also suggest a simpler method to combine several single-message files into an mbox folder. You can put them all into a directory, select all of them in a GUI and then drag-and-drop them into a new Thunderbird folder. (You might need to rename the files to have a ".eml" extension. I am not sure.) Then you can move the Thunderbird folder to somewhere else and VM will handle it fine. Cheers, Uday
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