[Dovecot] Best way from Mbox to Maildir using 2.17?
SATOH Fumiyasu
fumiyas at osstech.jp
Tue Nov 5 09:30:36 EET 2013
At Tue, 5 Nov 2013 08:10:46 +0100 (CET),
Steffen Kaiser wrote:
> >>>>> http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/
> >>
> >> The program has at least 2 bugs in it:
> >>
> >> . If the body has paragraph break (i.e., '\n') followed by the RFC822
> >> keyword 'From', the original message will loose the last half of
> >> the message and a phantom message will be created.
> >>
> >> Change from my notes:
> >>
> >> # if ( /^From /
> >> # -to-
> >> # if ( /^From .*? \d\d:\d\d:\d\d \d\d\d\d/
> >>
> >> . I never could figure out where the second bug was. This one created
> >> some messages with blank subject lines.
>
> You have a badly formatted mbox file, if there is such distinction neccessary:
No. There are some variants of mbox format.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbox#Family
> http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man5/mbox.5.html
>
> " In order to avoid misinterpretation of lines in message bodies which
> begin with the four characters "From", followed by a space character,
> the mail delivery agent must quote any occurrence of "From " at the
> start of a body line.
> "
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