From: Edward Betts <edward@4angle.com>
To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't bother checking for mbox files
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 10:57:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160313105742.GA9173@4angle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86io0v9oum.fsf@hiro.keithp.com>
Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com> wrote:
> Postfix adds mbox-style From lines when used in combination with
> maildrop or .forward files. If they have another line starting with
> 'From ' in them, notmuch complains about them not being mail files.
>
> If we assume the user hasn't screwed up and misconfigured their mail
> system, then we can safely ignore whether the file started with an
> mbox header and just parse it as a single-message file.
I think it is fine to go ahead with this change. At the same time the
behaviour of Postfix should be corrected so it doesn't add mbox-style From
lines to mails in maildir format.
The same problem existed in the Debian exim4 config. I filed a bug, it was
fixed: https://bugs.debian.org/769396
Here is a bug in maildrop suggesting that it should strip the mbox-style From
line from the top of mails: https://bugs.debian.org/737383
--
Edward.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-13 11:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-10 0:08 [PATCH] Don't bother checking for mbox files Keith Packard
2016-03-13 10:57 ` Edward Betts [this message]
2016-03-13 12:48 ` Jani Nikula
2016-03-14 7:23 ` Tomi Ollila
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