GitHub user sebbASF opened an issue:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-ponymail/issues/212
Bug: import-mbox.py fails to unescape >From lines
The mbox format is not standardised, but most will escape a line starting
with 'From ' by prepending a '>'.
When importing such files, the '>' prefix needs to be stripped off.
Sample import that is wrong:
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/15f6963a8102a5c3be141b6151f2c22428011c4ed60511ca2da1582b@1451547586@%3Ckerby.directory.apache.org%3E
AFAICT the problem is in the standard mailbox software which is part of
Python.
It looks like this escapes 'From ' on output, but does not unescape it on
input.
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