reformime bug?

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Thu Sep 16 15:16:24 UTC 2010


On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.com> wrote:
>> reformime INPUT is expected to be from a received
>> mail, but is this always terminated with CR LF?
>
> Definitely should. POP3.
>
>> My MBOX use just NL terminations.
>
> This means MBOX is not a collection of plain POP3 messages.
>
>> So the problem is possibly a wrong assumption in
>> reformail. Shouldn't this except both variants?
>
> You always can pipe your mbox thru sed performing NL->CRNL conversion
>
> Or, better, you might consider using popmaildir and new Maildir/
> format for your mail box. It's much safer.

While we are at it, why mailutils contain almost exact copy of uudecode's
base64 encoder and decoder?

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vda


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