Re: ANNOUNCE: development balsa-2.1.0 released

[Peter Bloomfield <PeterBloomfield bellsouth net>]

On 01/12/2004 05:50:28 PM, J.A. Magallon wrote:
> 
> On 01.12, Steffen Klemer wrote:
> ...
>> 3) Some mails aren't parsed correctly (haven't found a scheme  
>> which are and which are not, yet. Sometimes (seldomly) you  
>> have unread entries in the msg-list with no sender and no  
>> subject and the date 01.01.1970 1:00 Other times the sender is  
>> there but no subject and the date is as well 1970.
> >
> 
> Try to read this in balsa-2.1. In my case, it breaks messages  
> when it finds from: string at the beginning of a line, like
> from here
> to here
> (is this a new message, displayed with bas headers ?)
> 
> ;)

A message that contains a line beginning `From ' is a problem in  
an mbox file, because that marks the start of a new message.   
Libmutt used one strategy to cope, and GMime uses another, so  
Balsa-2.1.0 may misparse an mbox file containing messages that  
were stored there by Balsa-2.0.x.  If you:
- use Balsa-2.0.x to move the message to a maildir or mh mailbox;
- then use Balsa-2.1.0 to move it back;
it should be parsed and displayed correctly (provided Balsa-2.1.0  
didn't mangle the mailbox as a result of misparsing it!).

Afaik, GMime can't be instructed to use the libmutt `Lines:' and  
'Content-Length:' headers to correctly parse the mailbox, so we  
have no way to avoid the transition problem.

Peter