Re: [Evolution] Looking good, but a mail question

[Michael Wood <wood kingsley co za>]

Hi

On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 04:07:42AM -0400, NotZed wrote:
> >
[snip]
> > right? Well, the mbox file Evolution made looks normal, but neither mutt
> > nor mailx can load it. So I'm a bit stuck. Is there a way to make this a
> > standard mbox file again, short of forwarding myself all the mail? Also,
>
> It is a standard mbox.  Some mailers are just particular about what
> they think is standard (i.e. there is no standard?).
>
> You just have to make the From lines (any line beggining
> with exactly "From " in the mailbox) be something like
>
> > From user host domain Thu Jul  8 22:30:12 2000
>
> Rather than the From - that evolution uses.

Something like the following might help:

formail -i "From " -s formail <mbox >mbox.new

The -i "From " thing makes it remove the "From " line and
sending it through formail again makes it add in another one
based on other headers.

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