On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 09:35:26AM +0100, Dr. Werner Fink wrote:
Hmmm ... an external suid dotlock program is backward to the old dotlocking of heilroom mailx. What was wrong with the old way? AFAIK /var/spool/mail/ is 1777 aka rwxrwxrwxt
Next problem ERROR# ? errors 1. MBOX mailbox contains non-conforming From_ line(s)! Message boundaries may have been falsely detected! Setting variable *mbox-rfc4155* and reopen should improve the result. If so, make changes permanent: "copy * SOME-FILE". Then unset *mbox-rfc4155* ... all my mail folders do use 'From ' as very first tag of a message within a mail folder. And an empty line berfore next `From ' The misbehaviour is triggered by --- /tmp/bad.mbox 2018-12-11 10:42:44.022544988 +0100 +++ /tmp/good.mbox 2018-12-11 10:42:44.718532118 +0100 @@ -180095,7 +180095,7 @@ which should reduce everyone's integrati https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/issues/28 -From clean Mutt source, it shows which patches each distro uses and the +>From clean Mutt source, it shows which patches each distro uses and the Status: O order in which I'd like to maintain them. @@ -295051,7 +295051,7 @@ Hi Werner, over binaries not mention in texlive.tlpdb.xz -From where did you get this texlive.tlpdb.xz? Those binaries are all +>From where did you get this texlive.tlpdb.xz? Those binaries are all Status: O included in the texlive.tlpdb that's in the pretest directory, as far as .... IMHO this is a bug in s-nail as the correct RFC4155 states: o Each message in the mbox database MUST be immediately preceded by a single separator line, which MUST conform to the following syntax: The exact character sequence of "From"; a single Space character (0x20); the email address of the message sender (as obtained from the message envelope or other authoritative source), conformant with the "addr-spec" syntax from RFC 2822; that is those From within the messages bodies are not broken but s-nail does not search for the "addr-spec" which has to follow the startinge `From ' -- "Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool." -- Edward Burr