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| DATE | 2007-11-18 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Website Updates
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On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 01:35:47AM -0500, Ron Guerin wrote:
> Ron Guerin wrote:
>
> > Actually, I guess Mutt isn't putting the delimiter in, if you're using
> > Mutt to read an mbox that Sendmail is doing delivery to, it'd be
> > Sendmail or maybe procmail doing the delivery. Again, best to use some
> > nice shiny CPAN mbox parser, but I'm sure if you take another look at
> > your mbox file you can see what the delimiter is.
>
> Further investigation seems to show that Thunderbird uses a delimiter
> that looks like this: From - Sun Nov 18 01:22:56 2007
>
That's almost exaclty what the mbox in /var/spool/mail/ looks like
From: ruben-at-mrbrklyn Sun Nov 18 01:22:56 2007
I think that literally written by sendmail when the mail is recieved
and entered on the first line of the mail, which is why the only
thing you can trust in your headers with regard to spam is the
very first line.
Ruben
> Now I see what you've been trying to do at least, but you're killing
> yourself with all the regexes you're running. This stuff isn't as
> simple as it ought to be, and if you're not going to use someone else's
> code, you're probably going to find it time well spent to at least look
> at someone else's code to get ideas about how to efficiently split
> messages out of those mboxes.
>
> - Ron
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You must be a stupid engineer then, because politcs and technology have been attached at the hip since the 1st dynasty in Ancient Egypt. I guess you missed that one."
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