On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote: > Quoting Preston Crawford <me at 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 at herdomain.com Wed Oct 10 11:50:44 2005 -0700 >> From heraddress at 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 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