On Fri, 2020-05-08 at 01:44 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > In my mail files each message is followed by a blank line > before the next "From_" line. Is that a requirement of > mbox format? If so, it may be necessary to add it to > the crontab output. It's how mbox works, each email is concatenated into one huge file, and that's the separator (a blank line, then a "from" line at the beginning of the next message). i.e. It's an mbox thing, not a general email thing. Of course, it's entirely possible for someone to write an email, starting off a new paragraph with the word from, and that'll confuse the heck of dumbly written email software. Typically, they'll split the email there, you'll only see what appeared before it, and the rest of the mail will be completely lost. I say dumb, because it's well known that people might write an email that way, they should't have to word their emails some other way, and email software should be able to handle it, one way or another. The usual way is that some mail handler will add a character into the text, somewhere, to make it different (e.g. shove a > in front, or add another character after the word from). That could be your own email program, munging the message as it sends it (another dumb thing), or it could be an email server munging messages as it passes through them knowing that *it* is going to store its messages in a mbox file (just acceptable), or some email server munging messages passing through it in case some other mail server can't handle it (another dumb thing). Another way of handling it is for your mail server to not use a from line, and be able to ignore the word "from" appearing in a message. Whether that be using some other non-standard message separation method of their own, or an addition (such as adding details to the "from line" about the length of the message, so the server doesn't break apart messages when the word "from" appears before the end of the message), or a different mail storage technique. e.g. Maildir stores each email as a separate file, so doesn't need to use that technique. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1127.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Mar 31 23:36:51 UTC 2020 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
