At 04:12 PM 8/27/97 -0500, Todd wrote:
I have recently seen some flakey behavior, however. One message in my
mailbox file keeps getting split in the middle for no apparent
reason.
Then quoted the offending mailbox:
From nobody Mon Aug 18 09:42:23 1997
Sender: tdh(_at_)enteract(_dot_)com
Newsgroups: rec.sport.volleyball
Subject: USAV Rule Changes for 1997-98
From: Todd <tdh(_at_)io(_dot_)com>
Date: 18 Aug 1997 09:42:20 -0500
Message-ID: <wgshgcneenn(_dot_)fsf(_at_)enteract(_dot_)com>
Organization: Not likely
X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34
Lines: 73
Xref: enteract.com sent-to-rsv:19
X-Gnus-Article-Number: 19 Mon Aug 18 09:42:23 1997
From the 1997-98 rule books. The prose in the outdoor rule book
Diagnosis:
I betchya it gets broken right before here. MHonArc defaults to breaking
mboxes into messages using lines that begin with the string "From " (that's
one space after the m). (That's an unfortunate standard that MHonArc
inherited from someone else.)
The cure is to invent a Perl regular expression that matches only the
separator lines in mailboxes that you're using. Override MHonArc's default
by setting the environment variable M2H_MSGSEP to the new expression or
assigning the new value on the MHonArc command line with -msgsep .
Do a grep "^From " on your mailboxes to find out what the default regexp is
matching.
Something like "^From nobody .* 19[0-9][0-9]$" would match a slightly
generalized version of the first separator line in your example but not the
one line in the message body.
-- SP
