Users may accidentally or unknowingly write `mbox' and not know
we support 4 incompatible mbox variants.
---
lib/PublicInbox/LeiToMail.pm | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/LeiToMail.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/LeiToMail.pm
index de75e99e..008da52e 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/LeiToMail.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/LeiToMail.pm
@@ -407,7 +407,9 @@ sub new {
$lei->{opt}->{save} //= \1 if $lei->{cmd} eq 'q';
} elsif (substr($fmt, 0, 4) eq 'mbox') {
require PublicInbox::MboxReader;
- $self->can("eml2$fmt") or die "bad mbox format: $fmt\n";
+ $self->can("eml2$fmt") or die <<EOM;
+E: bad mbox format: $fmt (did you mean: mboxrd, mboxo, mboxcl, or mboxcl2?)
+EOM
$self->{base_type} = 'mbox';
if ($lei->{cmd} eq 'q' &&
(($lei->path_to_fd($dst) // -1) < 0) &&