[Mailman-Developers] broken mbox?

[Corbett J. Klempay]

Hmm..but this is what I'm saying...none of these messages start with From.
The From you saw is taken from the header of the next message (none of the
sentences in the message body start with From).  That's the problem I'm
talking about...every message (if I run the script and watch it go
throught the first 10 or 20 messages in the mbox file) is read wrong or
something by the mailbox module, as requesting their message bodies always
has this fragment of the header from the following message.

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Corbett J. Klempay
Trilogy Software, Inc.
512.685.4193 (W) | 512.750.1372 (C)
corbett.klempay@trilogy.com

On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Sean Reifschneider wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 09:45:29PM -0400, Corbett J. Klempay wrote:
> >Hmm..I guess you missed my immediate follow up message...that > was not
> >supposed to be there...I seem to have typed it by accident (I reran my
> >program several times to make sure...sure enough, the output of my program
> >does not have a > before the From, and the actual mbox file doesn't have
> >it either).  ?  
> 
> Sending e-mail with a line that starts with "From" causes a '>' to be
> inserted, as I demonstrated in the message I sent to you.  The point
> still remains that you had a "From" line which was not in a format
> recognised by the Python mailbox code, and it had nothing to do with
> the '>' that appeared in your mail message.
> 
> Sean
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