[sclug] Mailfile message boundaries

[Will Dickson]

Patrick Kirk wrote:
> Any thoughts on the boundary question - the error rate is 15% which just 
> makes it too buggy for even a 0.1 release on Sourceforge.

Two trivial observations which are almost certainly both obvious and 
unhelpful, but I'll make them anyway just in case:

1. The system itself must have some means of parsing this file. At a 
guess, it's one of:

a) separate indexing file;

b) non-printing escape character, e.g \0;

c) SMTP-style dot delimiters (a '.' on a line all to itself signifies 
end-of-message; if the message itself contains a line which starts with
a '.', it's doubled to "..".)

Based on very little evidence I'd look at c) first.


2. If you're really desperate, you could always RTFS...


Will.