Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!prlb2!kulcs!dirk
From: dirk@kulcs.uucp (Dirk Craeynest)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Problem reading mail folder and quitting.
Summary: invalid date format?
Keywords: date DST
Message-ID: <135@miranda.kulcs.uucp>
Date: 25 May 89 10:01:49 GMT
References: <460@myab.se> <5372@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Reply-To: dirk@cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Dirk Craeynest)
Organization: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Dept. Computer Science
Lines: 39

In article <5372@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
writes:
>In article <460@myab.se> lars@myab.se (Lars Pensj|) writes:
>+When changing to a mail folder created by saved articles from rn, I
>+get the message: "Folder is corrupt.".
>
>A folder will be considered corrupt if it's first non-null line is not
>of the format
>	From [address] [date]
>If the first non-null line does not have that form, then rn(1) is *not*
>saving the article in mailbox format. (I have rn(1) save in mailbox
>format and it works.)

We also noticed the problem Lars mentioned.  When saving in mailbox
format from rn, a From line is prepended to the article, using the date
the article was saved.  However, elm and rn don't agree 100% on the
format of the first line in a folder.

Saving the referenced article gives:
  From prlb2!mcvax!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!ames!pacbell!pbhyf!rob Thu May 25 11:32:49 MET DST 1989
  Article 1089 of comp.mail.elm:
  Path: kulcs!prlb2!mcvax!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!ames!pacbell!pbhyf!rob
  >From: rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
  Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
  Subject: Re: Problem reading mail folder and quitting.
  [...]

rn(1) uses date(1) to build the From line, and since we are using
Daylight Saving Time in Belgium, DST is included after MET.  Elm doesn't
seem to like that...

Is elm correct in rejecting a header of that format?

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