On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 00:15:46 -0400, Errol Casey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a 300+ MB spool file normal unix mail; but it was created via > getmail (top pop mail) and the headers got changed such that the From: > line was not the > first line, of each message. I thought I could fix it by rewriting the > file to remove all the headers before From:, and re-save the spool. But > evidently, I must not have the correct carriage-return/line feed between > messages, or other lines because the 300 MB spool file is still un- > readable via mutt or qpopper due to issues with the format.
Note, btw, that the first line of each message in an mbox format mailbox isn't "From: " but instead "From ". If you think that's confusing, you're not alone! :-) Basically, as far as I can tell, mbox starts each message with a "From " with no colon which contains the envelope sender, which may or may not be different from the "From: " (with a colon) field in the mail headers. This From also contains a datestamp after the envelop sender. Hope this helps. Cheers, Tanner -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
