A script for fixing bare newlines in mailbox files?

[Joseph Brennan]

--On Friday, January 12, 2007 12:18 -0500 Jorey Bump <list at joreybump.com> 
wrote:


> Did any users report any further corruption of what is arguably already a
> corrupted message? I'm not familiar with the cause of this problem, but
> having encountered it before, mainly with messages that have large
> attachments, I'm wondering if attached files might be unusable after such
> a scrubbing (assuming they were not encoded properly).
>



No.  For a few years we have been refusing or rewriting messages
with nulls or bare returns, so only mail at least 4 years old was
involved.  Many of the messages involved were 10 years old or more.

Amateurish Windows-based mail-sending software is still in use that
sends junk like this.  From the lack of trouble reports, I think it
is text parts that are mainly affected.  Maybe to do encoding the
software writers use standard modules that do it right.

Joseph Brennan
Lead Email Systems Engineer
Columbia University Information Technology