exim pipe transport, notmuch insert and mbox-style messages

[Tomi Ollila]

On Sun, Nov 23 2014, Tomi Ollila wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 22 2014, Edward Betts wrote:
>
>> My mail arrives on a Debian machine running exim. It was being filtered
>> by procmail then piped into 'notmuch insert'. This was generating the
>> single-message mbox warning:
>>
>>> Warning: ...  is an mbox containing a single message,
>>> likely caused by misconfigured mail delivery.  Support for single-message
>>> mboxes is deprecated and may be removed in the future.
>>
>
> I personally would like to see this feature undeprecated, as I see no
> reason accepting such messages...

+ /// *not* \\\

:)

>
> Tomi

Tomi

>
>
>> I wonder if 'notmuch insert' could be modified to detect and drop the From_
>> line before writing the message to disk and index it. It could do that
>> silently or with a warning.
>>
>> -- 
>> Edward.