Re: [Evolution] Re: mbox parsing

[Michael Wood <wood kingsley co za>]

Hi

On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 10:01:02PM -0400, NotZed wrote:
> > Just do a few more checks on the from line, e.g. check the
> > date is valid.  That will reduce the chance of bogus parsing
> > to almost 0.
>
> No, there is no such thing as a valid date in a From line.

He means the "^From " line and not the "^From: " line.  i.e. the
very first line of the message that includes the envelope sender
and the date.

I know elm has problems opening mboxen with invalid date formats
in the "^From " line.  I think mutt does too.

The format is something like:
        From user host Thu Dec 09 11:08:06 1999

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