[SWLUG] Mail from File and /var/mail/

[Justin Mitchell]

On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 10:11 +0000, Jon Reynolds wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for quick answers. Using that mb2md.pl script worked fine for
> retrieving the odd bits of mail (old nothing funny going on) from
> /var/mail/jonr.
> 
> But when I tried to use it on 'sent' it said:
> 
> Fatal: Source is not an mbox file or a directory!
> 
> It is literally just a single file and yes, all messages within start
> with the From: line.

thats what an mbox file is, one long text file with all the emails one
after the other.

the start of each email is '^From '

as in a line that starts with From then a space.