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Mbox bugs?


From: Kurt Hackenberg
Subject: Mbox bugs?
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2022 21:02:36 -0500
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While testing the current mailutils, I tried a few things, and found what look like two bugs in the mbox read stuff.

Attached are two files, t1.mboxrd and t1_mu.dotmail. I created the first one outside mailutils, and used movemail to read it and write the second, converting mbox to dotmail.

I believe these days mailutils treats all mbox files as the Rahul Dhesi variant, and, on read, unescapes message lines that start with ">From ". In this case, it unescaped the first two such lines, but not the third.

And, in the output dotmail file, the message has a blank line added at the end, before the dot line that marks the end of the message. I guess the mbox read code treated the blank line after the message in the mbox file as part of the message, which it's not -- the blank line is part of mbox format.

The extra blank line doesn't show up when movemail converts other formats to dotmail, so it's probably not a bug in the dotmail code.

Attachment: t1.mboxrd
Description: Text document

Attachment: t1_mu.dotmail
Description: Text document


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