On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 03:28:28PM -0500, Will Fiveash wrote: > > > When I use the mutt (on Solaris 11) copy function to copy three messages > > > in an existing mbox file to an new mbox file I see a blank line before > > > each new message's "From " line except for the first message. Maybe > > > it's time to break out the debugging tools on your end? > > > > > Yes, but did you look in the "existing mbox file" to see if there were > > blank lines betweeen the messages there? > > If I edit an mbox file and remove the blank line preceding each "From ", > run mutt on that mbox and have it save all the messages to an mbox it > creates I see no blank lines preceding "From " in the new mbox. So you > are correct in that mutt does not add a blank line. This mutt behavior > hasn't been a problem for me because all my incoming mail is put into > mbox files via fetchmail->procmail which appears to add the blank line. > Exactly! So mutt *doesn't* add a blank line before the 'File ' if there wasn't one there already, in fact it doesn't do anything except copy what it's given by the MDA.
This may be correct in that mutt isn't an MDA but it isn't what everyone here has being trying to tell me! :-) -- Chris Green
