Error in mail list MBOX file format 2012 February

[Alejandro Tejada]

Hi All, 

The software that is storing the mail from this list, 
made two parsing errors in the mbox file... again

Read a previous report:
http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Error-in-mail-list-MBOX-file-format-td4247238.html

Download the file from: 
http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/2012-February.txt.gz

The software failed to mark two instances where the word "From" 
appears at the beginning of a line.

The errors are only in lines 3250 and 8397
of the decompressed mailbox text file.

Line 3250 From the dictionary:
Message from Bob Sneidar
Wed, 1 Feb 2012 17:32:03 -0800
Subject: How does a command find out who called it?

Line 8397 From my experience of working with type for over 35 years,
Message from Paul Hibbert
Mon, 6 Feb 2012 09:13:33 +0000
Subject: What is up with FormattedHeight?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbox

"mboxo and mboxrd locate the message start by scanning for From lines 
that are typically found in the e-mail message header. 
If a "From " string occurs at the beginning of a line in either the headers 
or the body of a message (unlikely for the former for correctly formatted 
messages, but likely for the latter), the e-mail message must be modified 
before the message is stored in an mbox mailbox file or the line will be 
taken as a message boundary. This is typically done by prepending 
a greater-than sign:" 

>From my point of view... 

Al 


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