[mew-int 02000] Re: recovering rmail archives

[Kazu Yamamoto ( 山本和彦 )]

> I received the mbox files as-is.  They contained about 8000 mails
> each.  The problem with the `From' is probably a mailman bug in the
> version used on www.freetype.org.  It's a matter of fact that there
> *are* buggy mailer programs, so I think that incm should handle that
> gracefully if possible.  It's not a good solution to say `please get a
> better mailer program' since this is not always possible.

Why don't you write a script (e.g perl) to escape illegal Froms
as a pre-process for such a special case?

I think squeezing everything to incm is a bad idea.

--Kazu