Re: indexing Maildir mails

[Joe Shaw <joeshaw novell com>]

Hi,

On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 13:15 -0400, Ian Soboroff wrote:
> $ head -4 ~/Mail/mail/misc/8225
> X-From-Line: imap Fri Jul  5 16:33:27 2002
> Received: from nist-i.nist.gov (nist1.nist.gov [129.6.94.1])
>         by email.nist.gov (8.12.2/8.12.2) with SMTP id g65KV3FN011792
>         for <ian soboroff nist gov>; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 16:31:03 -0400 (EDT)

The "X-From-Line" is throwing off the MIME sniffer.  Most sniffers
(including gnome-vfs and Apache) expect one of "From", "Received",
"Relay-Version", or "Return-Path".  They're not technically required to
start the file, but it's generally a good, easy to detect convention.
Some KMail users are seeing something similar.

You could argue that the bug is in freedesktop.org's mime magic
database, but realistically it's impossible to detect every possible
first line that would be a compliant message.  It's generally good
behavior for mailers to append their headers rather than prepend them.
For this reason you may want to file an interoperability bug against
Gnus.

See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=310462

Joe