Re: mailbox confusions

> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 13:27:46 -0700
> From: Peter Costantinidis <pcjr_at_pobox.com>
>
> Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> > ...
> > PROBLEM
> > Hypermail has major problems with mails containing lines that start with
> > "from " since it'll treat them as mail-separators(!) (which explains some of
> > my mysterious bugs I've seen and I guess a lot of you should've experienced)
>
> I have seen some mailbox formats which include a "Content-Length" field
> in the mail header. If this has anything to do with the message length,
> then you might try using it and falling back to "From " as a last
> resort.

I know I read somewhere that the "Content-Length" in some mailboxes is prone to error, and that relying on it is perilous. I'm sorry, I can't remember the source of that information at the moment.

--Byron Darrah Received on Wed 29 Apr 1998 11:09:08 PM GMT