On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 01:22:56AM +1100, Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 23.03.13 12:40, Chris Green wrote: > > Well I first actually tried it and saw no blank line. > > > > I've now looked throught my archive (1845 mailboxes) and most of them, > > saved with mutt, using S[ave], seem *not* to have a blank line either. > > There are some with blank lines between but I suspect that's because of > > migrating back and forth between various formats quite a lot over the > > years. > > That is weird, because I'm using: > Mutt 1.5.21+145 (2a1c5d3dd72e) (2012-12-30) > but have used a whole string of older mutts over the years. And I've > never made (or heard of) a related config setting which could explain > the behavioural difference. > > > Certainly my current mutt 1.5.21 doesn't put a blank line in there and > > it's quite standard from the Ubuntu repositories (though I suppose they > > *might* have done something funny to it). > > So your mailboxes, viewed in vim or similar, have the /^From / line > immediately following the last non-blank line of the previous message!!? > That's something I've never seen ... in decades, mostly with mutt. > Here, I've just sent myself three test E-Mails and have saved them to a mailbox called test, here is the result:-
From MAILER-DAEMON Sat Mar 23 15:19:20 2013 Return-Path: <ch...@zbmc.eu> X-Original-To: chris Delivered-To: ch...@zbmc.eu Received: by chris.zbmc.eu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 94F62380255; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:19:20 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:19:20 +0000 From: Chris Green <ch...@isbd.co.uk> To: Chris Green <ch...@zbmc.eu> Subject: Test Message-ID: <20130323151920.GC10234@chris> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Content-Length: 31 Lines: 3 This is test 3 -- Chris Green From MAILER-DAEMON Sat Mar 23 15:18:53 2013 Return-Path: <ch...@zbmc.eu> X-Original-To: chris Delivered-To: ch...@zbmc.eu Received: by chris.zbmc.eu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B4267380255; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:18:53 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:18:53 +0000 From: Chris Green <ch...@isbd.co.uk> To: Chris Green <ch...@zbmc.eu> Subject: Test1 Message-ID: <20130323151853.GA10234@chris> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Status: O Content-Length: 31 Lines: 3 This is test 1 -- Chris Green From MAILER-DAEMON Sat Mar 23 15:19:06 2013 Return-Path: <ch...@zbmc.eu> X-Original-To: chris Delivered-To: ch...@zbmc.eu Received: by chris.zbmc.eu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 12196380255; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:19:06 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:19:06 +0000 From: Chris Green <ch...@isbd.co.uk> To: Chris Green <ch...@zbmc.eu> Subject: Test2 Message-ID: <20130323151905.GB10234@chris> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Status: O Content-Length: 31 Lines: 3 This is test 2 -- Chris Green I saved them separately (i.e. I didn't do a tag-save), nothing else special at all, as you can see I didn't save them in the order I sent them. 'mutt -v' returns:- chris$ mutt -v Mutt 1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Copyright (C) 1996-2009 Michael R. Elkins and others. Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'. Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details. System: Linux 3.5.0-26-generic (x86_64) ncurses: ncurses 5.9.20110404 (compiled with 5.9) libidn: 1.25 (compiled with 1.25) hcache backend: tokyocabinet 1.4.47 Compile options: -DOMAIN +DEBUG -HOMESPOOL +USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK +DL_STANDALONE +USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK +USE_POP +USE_IMAP +USE_SMTP -USE_SSL_OPENSSL +USE_SSL_GNUTLS +USE_SASL +USE_GSS +HAVE_GETADDRINFO +HAVE_REGCOMP -USE_GNU_REGEX +HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_START_COLOR +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD +HAVE_BKGDSET +HAVE_CURS_SET +HAVE_META +HAVE_RESIZETERM +CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_PGP +CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_SMIME +CRYPT_BACKEND_GPGME -EXACT_ADDRESS -SUN_ATTACHMENT +ENABLE_NLS -LOCALES_HACK +COMPRESSED +HAVE_WC_FUNCS +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET +HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR +HAVE_ICONV -ICONV_NONTRANS +HAVE_LIBIDN +HAVE_GETSID +USE_HCACHE -ISPELL SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail" MAILPATH="/var/mail" PKGDATADIR="/usr/share/mutt" SYSCONFDIR="/etc" EXECSHELL="/bin/sh" MIXMASTER="mixmaster" To contact the developers, please mail to <mutt-...@mutt.org>. To report a bug, please visit http://bugs.mutt.org/. misc/am-maintainer-mode features/ifdef features/xtitles features/trash-folder features/purge-message features/imap_fast_trash features/sensible_browser_position features-old/patch-1.5.4.vk.pgp_verbose_mime features/compressed-folders features/compressed-folders.debian debian-specific/Muttrc debian-specific/Md.etc_mailname_gethostbyname.diff debian-specific/use_usr_bin_editor.diff debian-specific/correct_docdir_in_man_page.diff debian-specific/dont_document_not_present_features.diff debian-specific/document_debian_defaults debian-specific/assumed_charset-compat debian-specific/467432-write_bcc.patch debian-specific/566076-build_doc_adjustments.patch misc/define-pgp_getkeys_command.diff misc/gpg.rc-paths misc/smime.rc upstream/531430-imapuser.patch upstream/537818-emptycharset.patch upstream/543467-thread-segfault.patch upstream/542817-smimekeys-tmpdir.patch upstream/548577-gpgme-1.2.patch upstream/553321-ansi-escape-segfault.patch upstream/568295-references.patch upstream/547980-smime_keys-chaining.patch upstream/528233-readonly-open.patch upstream/228671-pipe-mime.patch upstream/383769-score-match.patch upstream/578087-header-strchr.patch upstream/603288-split-fetches.patch upstream/537061-dont-recode-saved-attachments.patch upstream/608706-fix-spelling-errors.patch upstream/620854-pop3-segfault.patch upstream/611412-bts-regexp.patch upstream/624058-gnutls-deprecated-set-priority.patch upstream/624085-gnutls-deprecated-verify-peers.patch upstream/584138-mx_update_context-segfault.patch upstream/619216-gnutls-CN-validation.patch upstream/611410-no-implicit_autoview-for-text-html.patch upstream/path_max mutt.org Are all those patches listed Ubuntu/debian additions? -- Chris Green