[mew-int 01995] Re: recovering rmail archives

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > It is problematic IMHO that incm only uses `From ' to separate
> > emails.  Consider the mail below which is split into two files
> > instead of one.
> 
> Why your local mailer didn't escape /^From / string?

My local mailer does escape `From' correctly within the mail body, but
not all mailers do -- AFAIK, it's just a recommendation in the mbox
format to do that.

> I think mbox's message separator is /^From /, and the local mailer
> must escape /^From / strings in a message.

Well, I think you should take a smarter approach to overcome mboxes
which don't escape `From'.  In my special case, I had to check large
mbox files for viruses and spam (from the old FreeType mailing lists),
and I hoped to quickly split them with incm, but it didn't work
reliably -- this was the reason for me to send a bug report.


    Werner