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On Tue, 5 Nov 2013, Noel Butler wrote:

On 05/11/2013 01:16, Mark Moore wrote:

mb2md.pl

http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/


The program has at least 2 bugs in it:

. If the body has paragraph break (i.e., '\n') followed by the RFC822
  keyword 'From', the original message will loose the last half of
  the message and a phantom message will be created.

  Change from my notes:

#           if ( /^From /
#     -to-
#           if ( /^From .*? \d\d:\d\d:\d\d \d\d\d\d/

. I never could figure out where the second bug was. This one created
  some messages with blank subject lines.

You have a badly formatted mbox file, if there is such distinction neccessary:

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man5/mbox.5.html

" In  order  to  avoid misinterpretation of lines in message bodies which
  begin with the four characters "From", followed by a  space  character,
  the  mail  delivery  agent  must quote any occurrence of "From " at the
  start of a body line.
"

also look at the example of the From-line with date, your date is not RFC822. However, the date-format varies. Therefore, the start token of a (next) message in mbox are the five characters "From " at the start of a line.

- -- Steffen Kaiser
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