On 22.03.13 12:54, Derek Martin wrote: > On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 09:04:21AM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > > 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 '.
When I save a message to another mailbox, mutt always leaves a blank line between messages. (Sometimes there are two blank lines - one is then presumably part of the message.) I have 1092 mailboxes, many with thousands of messages. Most of them receive mail only by save or copy. A quick awk script showed one apparent exception to this mutt behaviour in the 1596 messages in one of those saved-by-mutt-only mailboxes, but it was a /^From / occurring within an attachment. > Yet it works with every MDA I've ever used... which seems to suggest > that this is the expected behavior, and that the Python library got it > wrong. And to be honest it's not really *that* surprising... I've > seen other cases where Python libraries were doing it wrong (whatever > "it" might be). Having only used fetchmail, these last couple of decades, I can only confirm that it inserts a blank line, thus mimicking mutt's behaviour. There are several hundred thousand messages in my archive, and I do occasionally go in with vim, but have never seen one message butt up against the previous. Checking a delivery mailbox with the awk script finds no exceptions in 3180 messages. Erik -- Life is complex: it has a real part and an imaginary part. - Martin Terma
