James Greenwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I looked more carefully at the From lines of the messages > it was picking up compared to those it wasn't, and in the > ones mutt can see, the sender is an e-mail address, e.g. : > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Oct 16 12:48:57 2001 > > whereas in the messages mutt is ignoring, it is a name, e.g.: > > From Bruce Smith Wed Oct 17 17:08:13 2001 > > and just removing the space like this solves the problem: > > From BruceSmith Wed Oct 17 17:08:13 2001
This is exactly the problem. Mutt uses a more stringent definition for the mailbox separator, namely "From <userid> <date-stamp>". Mutt has some heuristics for recognizing date stamps, but if the userid is more than one word, the heuristics fail. Technically it shouldn't be multiple words anyway. > I don't know enough about the mailbox format to know whether > this is a bug in mutt, or a bug in the LibDBX program I used > to translate the Outlook files into mailbox format. It's a bug in the tool that wrote the mailbox, LibDBX, I suppose. But it's hard to fault it, since the mailbox format is so loosely defined. Mutt chooses to be picker about the "From " syntax because some mailers don't properly escape a "From " that is inside the body of the message. -- David DeSimone | "The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | that there is no man really clever who has not Hewlett-Packard | found that he is stupid." -- Gilbert K. Chesterson Richardson IT | PGP: 5B 47 34 9F 3B 9A B0 0D AB A6 15 F1 BB BE 8C 44
