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From: woerz%isaak@isaak.uucp (Dieter Woerz)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: elm 2.2 reads rn folders
Summary: Elm 2.2 PL8 does not read rn folders on a SUN3
Keywords: elm 2.2 rn folder
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Date: 22 Jul 89 23:04:27 GMT
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In article <478@wubios.wustl.edu> david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) writes:
>I made a mistake in a recent posting.  elm 2.2 PL8 does seem to read
>rn-generated folders.  It seems like we were having a problem, but no
>longer.  Oh well, sorry for any confusion.  -David-

The problem here still exists with elm 2.2 PL8. It's a problem while
reading the From_ line. Rn writes the From_ line correctly with the
date given by ctime. On BSD-System the daylight saving time is given
in a seperate field with the letters DST, perhaps to make the parsing
for the timezone easier.

The From_ line output by rn here looks like that:
    From ...!mcvax!uunet!wugate!wubios!david Sat Jun 17 00:52:03 MET DST 1989
(The ... were inserted by me to get the line short enough).

What I like to know, is there a RFC or something like that, how the
From_ line should look like, specially the date? If not, is it
possible to have elm parse a date like the one generated by rn too.

Dieter Woerz
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