On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 03:05:21PM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote:
| begin dman quotation:
^^^^^
I like your tactics here. If a critical mass of people with something
useful to say agree to tickle some of Outhouse's bugs, then maybe the
outhouse will
begin to die :-).
| > In an mbox, messages must have a
| > Lines: header (often added by the delivery agent) so that a reader
| > knows how many lines the message is.
|
| Not "must have", but it makes mbox processing more efficient. If the
| Lines header is not there, the reader just reads on until it finds a
| blank line followed by "From ". This is why, when someone begins a
| paragraph with the word "From", you often see that the mail software has
| changed it to ">From" -- it prevents confusion.
Yeah. I guess maybe mutt just counts lines as it reads an mbox if the
Lines: header isn't there. I know that the "missing" Lines: header,
in conjunction with the default index_format, is what causes the size
to be displayed as 0.
-D
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