Ah - mbox format - still use it for my mail archives. Convenient for grepping or loading into vi. On Fri, 2023/11/24 01:20:20AM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: | | From: Ron / BCLUG via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | | | I've seen mbox files get corrupted (all mailbox | | messages in one file, and a line like "From: " is the message delimiter. | | Terrible!) | | I don't remember seeing that corruption in the last few decades of using | mbox. The horrors of in-band signalling are well known -- maybe the | software I use reflects that knowledge. I believe in an mbox file, the messages start with "From " (no colon), preceded by either the beginning of the file, or a newline. When the body of a message contains "<nl>From " the convention is that it must be replaced by "<nl>>From " when saving to the file i.e. add a > before the From. That's how message delimiter confusion is avoided. Geez, there is such much crap filling up my brain. Cheers. John