Garrett Nievin added the comment:
Yes, I couldn't access the mailbox at all. Here's what happens:
$ cat mymail.py ; ./mymail.py
#!/usr/bin/python3
import mailbox
for message in mailbox.MH('~/mail/Personal'):
print(message['subject'])
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/mailbox.py", line 1148, in get_sequences
name, contents = line.split(':')
ValueError: not enough values to unpack (expected 2, got 1)
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./mymail.py", line 3, in
for message in mailbox.MH('~/mail/Personal'):
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/mailbox.py", line 108, in itervalues
value = self[key]
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/mailbox.py", line 72, in __getitem__
return self.get_message(key)
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/mailbox.py", line 1037, in get_message
for name, key_list in self.get_sequences().items():
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/mailbox.py", line 1162, in get_sequences
line.rstrip())
mailbox.FormatError: Invalid sequence specification: 74 27976-27984 27987-27989
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