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It starts in the left margin with a capital F
and has no collon.
If a line in the message starts with From you must escape it:
>From this point on your mbox gets corrupt if t his is not escaped.

The From: header should not be confused with the From line
which separates mbox entries.
From: "la la" <lala at googoo.com>
is not the mbox separater.
I think formail might be able to help with what you want it is part of procmail
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 02:00:25PM -0500, Raul A. Gallegos wrote:
> Hi guys.  I have a lot of messages from pmmail 2000 style which I would 
> like to use from mutt since that is the primary source of my mail 
> management.
> 
> The deal is that pmmail stores each message one file per message with 
> .msg extention.  What I did was wrote a loop script that cats the .msg 
> files into one large mailbox file.  Example:
> 
> for msg in `ls *.MSG` ;do
> cat $msg >> mailbox-temp
> done
> 
> Now I have mailbox-temp which I converted to Unix since it was in dos 
> format.
> 
> When I try to open this from mutt it gives me an error that the mailbox 
> is invalid.  I looked at the mailbox itself and I notice that each new 
> message in mutt starts with the from line and the headers follow.
> 
> With the one I created each one starts with Received:  from
> I'm assuming that the correct format is to have the from be the first 
> line so that it's a standard mailbox.
> 
> I'm trying to use vi to search for a blank line then the word Received:  
> in the body to replace it with the blank line and not the word received 
> so the first part of a new message starts with from as in the working 
> mailboxes I have.
> 
> The keys I pressed to try and get it to do this are:
> 
> esc : s/^$^V^MReceived: 
> 
> but it's not working.  The control-v is so that i can just hit another 
> sequence and the actual control code is put there.  Any suggestions on 
> how I can get rid of the word Received:  but only when it's the firs 
> word after a blank line?
> 
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