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- From: ophof@SERVER.uwindsor.ca (Scott Ophof)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: ">From " lines and "corrupt folder" msg
- Date: 8 Jan 1993 22:54:15 -0600
- Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
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- On 7 Jan 1993 21:55:45 GMT barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr) said:
- >In article <9301072058.AA14276@SERVER.uwindsor.ca> ophof@SERVER.uwindsor.ca (Scott Ophof) writes:
- >>On Tue, 29 Dec 92 14:37:09 EST tom@crc.doc.ca (Thomas Erskine) said:
- >>>In article <9212260325.AA18454@SERVER.uwindsor.ca> you write:
- >>>>If not, what is the *EXACT* command to give to "vi" in order to
- >>>>...
- >>>:1,$s/^>From /From /
- >>>...
- >>A private reply gave me the following alternative:
- >> :%s/^>\(From .*\)/\1/c
- >>which askes for confirmation at each occurrance.
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- >The "mbox format" requires that ALL lines beginning with "From "
- >be changed to ">From ". This includes BOTH the body and the header.
-
- Ahh... So IMHO whoever defined the "mbox format" should also (have)
- come up with a "delousing" utility. Fair's fair, right? :-)
- Any suggestions/hints as to who I should approach for a cleanup
- utility that also takes care of the body of the item?
-
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- >The beginning of a new piece of mail is found by looking for "From "
- >in the beginning of the line.
-
- Yes, this was clear.
- Let's assume the BODY of an item contains a line answering exactly
- to the syntax of the "From " line, with a blank line preceding it,
- plus some other header lines (the author is giving an example of
- some header lines), and a trailing blank line.
- The receiving software will prefix that "From " line with a ">".
- Assume the user grumbles and edits the item, removing that ">"
- because he knows it doesn't belong there.
- When he then references the folder containing that item, there will
- now be one more item than before, right?
- Or does "elm" understand that this is still the body of that item?
- I hope the latter...
-
- Regards.
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