[Dovecot] Blank lines in mailboxes

Jakob Curdes jc at info-systems.de
Tue Apr 26 19:43:54 EEST 2005


>Kinda funny: I once encountered a UNIX mail utility that would always
>append messages to mbox files with a leading blank line even if the file
>was empty (i.e.  it would create new mbox files with a leading blank
>line), but would refuse to open any mbox files that began with a blank
>line.  Dunno how it survived in the wild... I suspect it was some broken
>interim version, but at any rate I hacked it to keep it from writing the
>blank line, *and* to skip blank lines when opening up an mbox.
>
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Would you be able to disclose the name of that utility in case I am 
using it inadvertently ??

JC




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