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From: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>
To: Perttu Luukko <perttu.luukko@iki.fi>
Subject: Re: How to debug 'ignoring non-mail file' issues
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On Wed, 03 Sep 2014, Perttu Luukko <perttu.luukko@iki.fi> wrote:
> What I mean that there would be a separate error for cases "Does not
> resemble an email message at all", i.e., some control file your mail
> server happens to store in the mailbox, and "Looks like mail but we
> can't parse it", i.e., better find out why it can't be parsed to avoid
> potentially important messages going missing from the database.

As I said, GMime does not tell us the difference between the two.

BR,
Jani.