Ryan Tucker wrote:
[snip]
: when I was using the '-add' flag. It gets to the 'From time to time'
: and makes that a seperate message in the archives. Any ideas on how
: to force Mhonarc to treat this as one message? I'm calling this from
: /etc/alises so it can only be one message, I don't know why mhonarc
: is even checking for a second message. (or maybe I don't quite understand
: what -add is for.)
What it's doing is looking for "^From ", which typically denotes the
start of a new message. Try putting a > before the From on that line
(so that it's >From time to time...)... that's the "standard" way of
dealing with From at the beginning of a line. -rt
I just browsed through my own inbox and found that every message began with
a line of the form:
From emailaddress datestamp
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?
I also noticed that each of these From lines was preceeded by a blank line.
I'm not real expert on smtp mail storage formats, so this could be way off.
Perhaps something like...
From joi Wed Jul 23 15:35:00 1997
/^From\s+(\S+)\s+(\S+\s+\S+\s+\d+\s+\d+:\d+\+d\s+\d+)\s*$/
That's the first stab at a pattern I'd make, myself. No idea if it'd actually
work, nor have I run it through perl to test it on an input folder.
Just tossing this out to see if it's of any use.
