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Mail-Mbox-MessageParser (1.5000)

Saying that mbox is "just" a bunch of messages separated by lines matching /^From / indicates that the reviewer doesn't know what he's talking about. mbox is a family of incompatible formats, and coping with them is a pain. See also http://homepages.tesco.net./~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/mail-mbox-formats.html

The problem is that while it's easy to describe the start and end of a mbox entry, once you know where they are, it's not necessarily easy to find them. The middle of an mbox entry, unfortunately, can contain lines that look like the beginning of a new message. The differences relate to how lines that match /^From / are evaluated for whether or not they start a new message.

Ricardo SIGNES - 2008-11-12 07:46:38
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Mail-Mbox-MessageParser (1.5000)

How hard can it be to write a parser for the mbox format? The whole thing is just a concatenation of files separated by a blank line and /^From /. So why is it that writers of "fast and simple mbox parsers" like this can get things so wrong? For something which claims to be simple the installation alone requires downloads of a huge variety of C programs. I had more luck just writing my own mbox parser.

BKB - 2008-11-06 20:01:26
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Mail-Mbox-MessageParser (1.12)

Thanx a lot for your work !!
Cheers
cyrille

Cyrille - 2003-11-25 06:30:52
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