On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 12:20:38AM -0500, David Champion wrote: > * On 24 Mar 2013, Chris Green wrote: > > 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! :-) > > I don't know why my last four messages haven't made it through the > mailing list, but actually I have been trying without success to tell > you exactly that. :) You're spot on. > > Mutt adds headers to indicate the message length when it saves a > message. Apart from headers, it copies the message content exactly. > The blank line is considered part of the message content, so if present > it also gets copied. > > I'm sending this mainly for Chris's benefit, but since I'm sending > I might as well try the list again. BCC to Chris since he used a > Mail-Followup-To. > Thanks David, it does seem to have got to the list.
I think I might try and deliver some messages 'direct' using postfix, I can set up a dummy user here with no filter/procmail and take a look at what arrives in their inbox. If postfix *does* append a blank line to all messages I can then, maybe, go to the python library developers and say I think what they're doing is wrong. -- Chris Green
