Re: [PATCH 0/5] Second take at a more lax From_ parser

Kurt Hackenberg wrote in
 <[email protected]>:
 |On Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 04:55:22PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
 |
 |>I did a test with a message in a maildir mailbox that just contained
 |>the headers
 |>
 |>  Return-Path: <>
 |>  To: [email protected]
 |>
 |>(since it is in a maildir mailbox, there is no "From " line).
 |>Note that the Return-Path is valid (used by mailer-daemons).
 |>When I copied the message to a (new) mbox file, I obtained the
 |>following "From " line:
 |>
 |>  From @ Thu Jan 29 16:16:11 2026
 |
 |Yeah, that's not good.
 |
 |In that case, or whenever Mutt has nothing to put there, it could 
 |generate a dummy address -- maybe [email protected], or invalid@inv\
 |alid.

MAILER-DAEMON, then.

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