On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> Quoting Preston Crawford <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>> Trying to get my wife's emails out of a proprietary format and into mbox
>> for use on our local box. Doing some major file munging. In a test email
>> the following doesn't work. (forgetting dates, email addresses, etc.)
>>
>> From heraddress@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Wed Oct 10 11:50:44 2005 -0700
>> From heraddress@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Wed Oct 9 11:50:44 2005 -0700
>>
>> This is just me munging files and trying them in Pine.
>>
>> Any idea why the first doesn't work and the second does?
>
> I guess it is the amount of spaces that confuses pine. Being lazy to check
> what
Thanks to both of you guys. That's exactly what was going on. You learn
something everyday. Now I know what makes mbox mbox, I guess. A set number
of characters on that line in the date portion. Now I know what I need to
do, hopefully, to get those files of my wife's working. Thanks.
Preston
