From: Peter C. McCluskey (pcm@rahul.net)
Date: Fri Aug 18 2000 - 01:04:26 CDT
rothfarb@smt.ucsb.edu (Lee Rothfarb) writes:
>I am a new user of hypermail. Got it configured and installed. Runs
>well. Decided to try and convert some Unix mboxes to hypermail format,
>so used the hypermail -m command with the various other options (-d -l -b
>-a -c). Instead of the result being a directory containing a series of
>HTML files numbered from 0000.html onward, I ended up with a dir.
>containing one large HTML file (0000.html) containing all of the messages
>in the Unix mbox, strung one after the other. Either that's the way the
>command works, or I did something wrong. If the latter, can someone tell
>me how to convert the mboxes properly?
I would guess that your mbox has something nonstandard on the lines that
mark the start of each message. They should look something like this:
>From foo@bar.com Sun Jul 9 03:43:54 2000
Hypermail is rather picky about requiring the day of the week ("Sun", "Mon",
etc.) in this line.
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