Re: bug in mailread.rb, and: proposal for Mail#to_s

Wybo Dekker wrote:
>
> According to the mbox(5) manpage, it's the so-called "postmark line".

Ah, thanks.

> That manpage also recognizes the problem of body-lines starting wit /From /

It omits to say that a body line starting:
"From wybo@serv... Sun Sep 26 13:20:51 2004 +0200"
... is undetectable.

>
> So maybe the the expression should be less specific than proposed. Or,
> perhaps, it should be configurable.
>

The "ignore within header" part of mailread is benign because
it could never appear in a valid header.  Once the body has started,
nothing can be done.  Even valid header lines can appear in the body,
so you can't even split on a 'From ' line followed by a header with
absolute certainty.  IOW, you're fscked ;)

From wybo@serv...
From: Wybo <wybo@serv...>
To: ruby-core@ruby...


If this was "mboxread.rb", I wouldn't care what it had in it.

You've highlighted that the current mailread does have mbox "awareness"
and that's the cause of the bug.  By default, I think it should not try
to detect early EoF -- an option for mbox users would be preferable, IMO.

I've fixed my copy -- that test has been taken out :)
(I still think your version would be better than the current one.)

Cheers,

daz