[mew-int 01998] Re: recovering rmail archives

[Kazu Yamamoto ( 山本和彦 )]

> 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.

Escaping 'From' is a MUST, not a recommendation. 
If you find local mailers which do not escape 'From', you should fix
them.

> 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.

I don't understand this. You said your local mailer does escape From.
Why didn't it work?

--Kazu