> Check the MSGSEP resource as Al suggests, but I've never used Pegasus
> mail -- does it store files in mbox format, like Pine or Eudora?  if
> MSGSEP doesn't help you, try posting two consecutive raw messages from
> your datastore to the list.

You can have a look at this messages saved from pegasus here:
http://www.termisoc.org/~andyk/chemfan/archive/chemfan.mails.inbox

MSGSEP helped somewhat. Thanks. But I had to use non-standard regexp. 
With just plain -msgsep it didn't work (probably because of missing colon?).
I tried ^From:
but in that case I lost sender:

     Chemistry in cooking, owner-chemfan 
          <Possible follow-up(s)> 
          Re: Chemistry in cooking, owner-chemfan 
          Re: Chemistry in cooking, owner-chemfan 
          Re: Chemistry in cooking, owner-chemfan 
     Belousov-Zhabotinski reactions, mhaj3478 
     Re: What is the most powerful poison?, chemfan 
          <Possible follow-up(s)> 
          Re: What is the most powerful poison?, chemfan 
          Re: What is the most powerful poison?, chemfan 
          Re: What is the most powerful poison?, chemfan 
          What is the most powerful poison?, Anonymous 
          What is the most powerful poison?, chemfan 
          Re: What is the most powerful poison?, chemfan 
          Re: What is the most powerful poison?, chemfan 
          Re: What is the most powerful poison?, chemfan 
          Re: What is the most powerful poison?, chemfan 
          Re: What is the most powerful poison?, chemfan 
          What is the most powerful poison?, chemfan 
     Photos of experiments, owner-chemfan 
          <Possible follow-up(s)> 
          Re: Photos of experiments, owner-chemfan 
          Re: Photos of experiments, Anonymous 
          Re: Photos of experiments, Anonymous 
          Re: Photos of experiments, Anonymous 
          Re: Photos of experiments, owner-chemfan 

[..........]

     Ice, chemfan 
     Re: Amidine, chemfan 
          <Possible follow-up(s)> 
          Amidine, chemfan 
     Acidity, chemfan 
     Email list?, Anonymous 
     Renewed Sex Life!, Anonymous 
     BOOST YOUR !SEX! APPEAL AND CHANGE YOUR LIFE, Anonymous 
     The most complex molecule, chemfan 

===========
Then I tried ^-- and I received that:
 
/home/andyk/public_html/chemfan/archive> mhonarc -msgsep ^-- -outdir 
/home/andyk
/public_html/chemfan/archive/ 
/home/andyk/public_html/chemfan/archive/chemfan.ma
ils.inbox
Converting messages to /home/andyk/public_html/chemfan/archive/
Reading /home/andyk/public_html/chemfan/archive/chemfan.mails.inbox ......
Warning: Could not parse date for message
         Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
...............
Warning: Could not parse date for message
         Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
......


[....... etc.......]


Warning: Could not parse date for message
         Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
.
Warning: Could not parse date for message
         Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
.............................
Warning: Could not parse date for message
         Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
........................

Writing mail ...................................................................
................................................................................
...................................................................
Writing /home/andyk/public_html/chemfan/archive//maillist.html ...
Writing /home/andyk/public_html/chemfan/archive//threads.html ...
Writing database ...
214 messages

And consequently many messages are listed as anonymous:

No Subject, Anonymous 
          <Possible follow-up(s)> 
          No Subject, Anonymous 
          No Subject, Anonymous 
          No Subject, Anonymous 
          No Subject, Anonymous 

[.........]

          No Subject, Anonymous 
          No Subject, Anonymous 
          No Subject, Anonymous 
          No Subject, Anonymous 

Any ideas what to do about that?
You may have a look at the file from which I take the posts:
http://www.termisoc.org/~andyk/chemfan/archive/chemfan.mails.inbox

and the thread:
http://www.termisoc.org/~andyk/chemfan/archive/threads.html

Thanks....
ak

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