[FFML] [ADMIN] Archiver issues, and minor thing to deal with this

[John Campbell]

Mark A. Biggar wrote:
> This is a standard problem that most mail and news processors have. It's 
> actually working correctly according to the RFC-822 Internet email 
> standard, which says that in a file containing multiple messages that 
> each message starts with a line that starts with the string 'from' 
> ignoring case.

Don't forget the space... It's "from " not just "from" as otherwise it 
would catch the From: header line, "From: Email <email at email.com>" as 
well.  Doesn't it also have to have a blank line between messages or is 
that just a more recent convention?

Running the perl "Email" filters to chop apart this lists old archives 
I've noticed that none of the filters are that strict.  They defiantly 
require an upper case "From " as well as an '@' in the line (and no ':' 
except n the time).  The filters are pretty primitive but with a little 
preprocessing work fine.  I've also noticed that the older archives seem 
to feel that the filters should be that strict, as there's no blank line 
between messages and ">From" appears quite often within paragraphs.

> Fixing that will take care of future messages, but the fixing the 
> archive is harder. The last time I had to fix this problem in an email 
> archive I had to hand edit it and fix each occurrence manually.

The version at http://www.mail-archive.com/ffml@chez-vrolet.net/ (from 
the lists temporary archive page) doesn't seem to be effected.