[sclug] Mailfile message boundaries

[Patrick Kirk]

If anyone cares to help, I've put the last 3 hours worth here:
http://captain.kirks.net/Zapjunk.txt

The message it fails to split using '\nFrom ' can be found by searching 
for 'From foyccona'

Any help appreciated.

Patrick Kirk wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Spamassassin is doing a great job for me but one of my bugbears is that 
> reporting the ones that slip through to Spamcop is too much hassle.  so 
> I've written up a little script that takes all the files in the Spam 
> mailfile and emails them to a reporting address at Spamcop.
> 
> Problem is that IMAP mailfiles are a single huge test document.  So you 
> need a way to split the file into messages.
> 
> I've tried '--\n\n' but it errors too often.  '\nFrom ' works about 95% 
> of the time so I'm using it.
> 
> But how does one identify the boundary of a message - is there some 
> obvious token I've missed?

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Best regards,


Patrick Kirk
Mobile: 07876 560 646