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Authored by: Mark A. Matthews on Dec 14, '02 01:10:42PM

You might try crunching the elm mailbox file through formail to clean it up before importing to Mail. 'formail -ds < oldmailbox >> newmailbox'.

I seem to recall that Elm sometimes has problems with erroneous Content-Length: headers. I've been able to work around such problems by editing the mailbox and removing all the Content-Lenght: headers, which causes the program reading the mailbox to depending on the blank line/From<space> sequence that Berkeley mailbox format employs for message separation in the mailbox file.

Various mail handler deal with the existence of the word from at the begining of a line within a message by escaping it with an inserted '>', thus the '>From' you see in the messages. However, if it's escaping ^From<colon>, as well as ^From<space>, then that's a bug.



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