On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 05:06:17PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 06:08:49PM -0500, David Champion wrote:
> > There absolutely should be a blank line. I think though that the order
> > is wrong: mutt expects that a message (i.e. a From_ line) appears at
> > the old EOF marker, and that the EOF marker is on/after a blank line.
> > I think that if you adjust your filter to write the message and then a
> > blank line instead of a blank line and then a message, the error will go
> > away.
>
> This matches my expectation also.
>
That's all very well but it does have some issues:-
What should an MTA do if there *isn't* a blank line at the end of
the current mbox where it is going to append a new message? It
seems to me that what the Python libraries do guarantees that there
will always be a blank line before the 'From ' line, if there's one
already then it doesn't matter too much.
Mutt itself *doesn't* put a blank line there, if you S[ave] or
C[opy] messages to a new mbox the messages have no blank lines
before the 'From '.
--
Chris Green
