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Re: Convert text file to mbox file?


From: Emanuel Berg
Subject: Re: Convert text file to mbox file?
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2022 19:07:22 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Dr. C. Baxter wrote:

> In my rmail configuration, I have sent the variable
> 'mail-archive-file-name' to a local file 'sent'.
> All appeared to go well for several months, but when I now
> try to read 'sent' via "M-x rmail-input" I'm told that
> 'sent' is an Invalid mbox file. I think the problem may have
> arisen when I edited and saved 'sent' as if it were an
> ordinary text file. Is there anyway in which I can covert
> 'sent' back to an mbox file?

If it makes you feel better, several people have, uhm, tried:

  
https://www.google.com/search?q=unix+mbox+file+repair&hl=en&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gbv=1&ucbcb=1

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