This will work nicely. mbox files can be joined without any problem, because attachments are stored together with the mail they belong to. The format of mbox files is extremely simple: Each mail starts with a line beginning with "From " (From with a trailing space, after this anything may be in the line, most often the receive timestamp). After this comes just the original mail stream as sent through the SMTP protocol. The mail ends either at end of file or at the next line starting with "From ". BTW this is the reason many mail programs add a "> " at the beginning of lines whi start with "From " or "from ", because these would break the mbox format.
What if I have a message file from a maildir store? Can I just output that somehow to an mbox file?
-- Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
