From: Rev. Bob 'Bob' Crispen (revbob@crispen.org)
Date: Thu Jun 05 2003 - 19:37:54 CDT
I'm having qmail pipe into hypermail as a stream, and it works very
nicely except for one thing. The mbox file that I have hypermail create
is completely bereft of "From " lines, though it more than makes up for
it with its generous supply of "Received: " lines. ;-)
This doesn't seem to be the case with any other mbox file I've ever
seen, and I was wondering if anybody else has noticed this. It has the
customary "From: " and "Date: " lines, from which hypetombox.pl can
reconstruct a proper "From " line, and you can see an example yourself
at <http://www.crispen.org/model-rr/archive/mbox>.
I've observed from some experiments that hypermail isn't to blame.
Sending to the appropriate address when ~/.qmail-test contains simply
"|cat >foo" produces an mbox without a "From " line. So hypermail
simply passes on what qmail gave it.
The reason I bring this up is, an mbox file without a "From " line is
pretty well useless for reconstructing a hypermail archive. I'm
wondering what the best approach might be for this:
(a) to chalk it up as an odd configuration of qmail, and forget the
whole thing,
(b) to make hypermail work with a "From: " line as well as a "From "
line, or
(c) to find a little piece of perl or something lying around that can
restore a "From " line to a message.
I regret to report that I'm old enough on this list that I remember when
(b) was under discussion (and perhaps even claimed to work -- it doesn't
now, and I'm doubtful if it ever did.
Before getting the latest out of CVS and plunging in up to my elbows, I
figured a couple of minutes thought might be in order. Any suggestions?
-- Rev. Bob "Bob" Crispen bob at crispen dot org "Novell has done us a tremendous service, by stomping upon an obnoxious parasite." - Bruce Perens