Quoting Preston Crawford me@prestoncrawford.com:

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@herdomain.com Wed Oct 10 11:50:44 2005 -0700 From heraddress@herdomain.com 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 the standards actually say, I've checked how the 'From ' lines generated by procmail (when used as MDA by sendmail) look like. They have two spaces after email address, single space after month name in date format (with day in month space padded, so you get two spaces after month if day is single digit), and no time zone info. Try something like this and see if Pine is going to be happy with it (should be):

From heraddress@herdomain.com Wed Oct 10 11:50:44 2005 From heraddress@herdomain.com Wed Oct 9 11:50:44 2005

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