On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 16:19:56 +0200, Erika Pacholleck wrote:
> Using 1.2.5i on linux.
> I downlaoded some mail archives, normally this works fine, just
> put them into my archive folder, fire mutt on it and voila.
> 
> Now however this does not work, mutts index keeps black (no it
> is not black text on black bg ;) ) although the status lines
> already indicates the correct size, but no messages counted.
> 
> The headers contain these lines
> From xxx
> Date: bbb
> From: xx
> Subject: aaa
> 
> I thought, this should be enough but apparently it is not. And
> also vim does not recognize this file as a mail file.

The problem is that the From_ line is not recognized. I found this
comment in the source file from.c which describes valid syntax:

/*
 * A valid message separator looks like:
 *
 * From [ <return-path> ] <weekday> <month> <day> <time> [ <timezone> ] <year>
 */

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