mhonarc-users

Re: Problems parsing messages (fwd)

1997-11-02 22:56:07
Joi Ellis <Joi(_dot_)Ellis(_at_)cdc(_dot_)com> wrote:
: The emailaddress may or may not be a complete form, meaning it might not
: have a "@host.domain" portion.  But, if perhaps the match pattern was
: enhanced to look for a date field at the end of the line, it would avoid
: many of the false hits of the current pattern?

The problem is that mhonarc is just doing what the standard says.  If it
didn't break mhonarc, it'd break something else, and so forth.  It's just
one of those evils about Unix mailbox format *grin*... -rt

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