blank line [was: mime.get.rfc822]

[David Relson]

At 09:06 AM 5/20/03, Simon Huggins wrote:

>On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 02:26:17PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
> > relson at users.sourceforge.net writes:
> > > Added Files:
> > >     mime.get.rfc822
>[..]
> > >             my $body = $subent->stringify_body;
> > >             $body =~ s/^From />From /mg;
> > >             $body =~ s/\n*$/\n\n/;
> > What's the previous line (the LF fiddling) good for?
>
>It ensures there's a blank line between messages.  I thought this was
>required for mbox format?
>
>
>Simon.

Simon,

Bogofilter doesn't need the blank line.  Having never read a spec on mbox 
format, I don't know if there's _supposed_ to be one, or not.  Looking at 
the mbox files used by postfix, I _do_ see a blank line before each "^From ".

David