Lack of From munging?
I suppose that's a reason, but it just seems like mbox has been the
standard for approximately forever and MMDF is one of those weird relics
like UUCP that I only hear about once in a million years.
I think at this point MH/nmh is probably the only tool left that can
deal with such things.
Python's mailbox in the standard library can read them. Unfortunately,
a GSoC in 2005 rewrote mailbox.py, breaking its support by sticking a
From␣ header before the header section. I've just opened
http://bugs.python.org/issue30428
So it's been broken for ... 12 years and no one cared until now? You're
not exactly selling me on this :-)
Python's documention refers to
http://www.tin.org/bin/man.cgi?section=5&topic=mmdf so I guess tin(1)
can.
tin seems like it's a Usenet reader? Am I wrong?
The reason I bring this up is I had vague plans on writing a mail
message parser using lex/yacc, and I was NOT planning on putting MMDF
support in it. Well, that would only be for parsing a maildrop; obviously
it wouldn't matter for parsing individual messages.
--Ken
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