From: Francois Fleuret Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:32:50 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Details about parsing the Date: field. X-Git-Url: https://fleuret.org/cgi-bin/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5ae211b52b3abcfbfc4a0e2023eb18b90d9ef9d7;p=mymail.git Details about parsing the Date: field. --- diff --git a/mymail.1 b/mymail.1 index cd76dc1..72c3907 100644 --- a/mymail.1 +++ b/mymail.1 @@ -164,9 +164,13 @@ The search in the mail bodies does not decode mimencoding mails, hence will not catch patterns in encoded text. The mbox format is not clear for multipart messages, since the ^"From -" lines are not always quoted properly (at least the ones I use for +" may not always be quoted properly (at least the ones I use for testing). +The date format for the ^Date: field is not standardized, and may not +be parsed properly, in which case the time stamp from the mail leading +^"From " will be used. + .SH "AUTHOR" Written by Francois Fleuret and distributed