I’ve been testing erlmail-0.0.2 and I came across some problems in my date parsing code. In reality the problems are in the util package that erlmail is dependant on, but date parsing is the problem none the less …
I decided that the randomness of RFC822 dates was worth another leex/yecc proejct, which I have always intended to do with many of the mail based RFCs. So I started the RFC822 scanner/parser which can now handle dates and dates only. It handles them much better then my custom code and once again proves that leex and yecc are better for parsing then I am.