>>Make  sure  that  any  lines  beginning with 'From ' in the body are
>>escaped to '>From '...

> I  have  confirmed  this  to be the problem; while building the .UID
> file,  any  line  in  the  MBX  file  that  begins  with  'From ' is
> considered  to  be  the  beginning  of  a new message; thus creating
> message  fragments.

The  man page for mboxrd (the most common mbox variant; IMail MBXs are
readable  by  mboxrd-compatible readers) specifically says "the reader
should not attempt to take advantage of the fact that every From_ line
(past the beginning of the file) is preceded by a blank line."

If  NetMail  is not escaping/quoting the word 'From ' at the beginning
of  a  line of body text, but using an indexing mechanism based on the
blank  line,  they  are using an old mbox variant like mboxcl2. As you
said,  since  the  delimiter  format  is  well-known, you'd be able to
replace 'From_' with '>From_' throughout the files, if you can exclude
the  delimiter lines explicitly. You don't have to worry about encoded
sections; they have to be quoted as well to conform to mboxrd.

-Sandy


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Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist
Broadleaf Systems, a division of
Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc.
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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