Hello I have recently switched from Pine to Mutt and I have several mailboxes that open fine in Pine but not in Mutt. Mutt seems to concatenate some of the messages together so that there are fewer messages in the index, but some contain multiple messages concatenated together when you open them, and I can see valid-looking 'From ' lines dotted throughout the bodies of those long messages.
E.g. one mailbox has 102 messages when I open it in Pine but only 3 in Mutt. When I view a mailbox in a text viewing program like 'less' it looks fine (to me), there are lots of e-mail messages and they are separated by lines that begin 'From ' - which Mutt seems to be ignoring in some cases. I don't know what else to look for regarding a possible corrupt mailbox. I've been reading the documentation but I can't find any option in Mutt to control what format it expects mailboxes to have or how it opens them - the manual says auto-detects the format. As far as I know the files are in standard UNIX mbox format. Originally the folders were transferred from Microsoft Outlook using a program called 'LibDBX' which I downloaded from Freshmeat, which translates Outlook Express .dbx files into UNIX mailbox files. The program worked perfectly (apparently) and for the last few months I've been accessing the UNIX mailboxes in Pine with no problems - it's only since I switched to Mutt that the problem started. The only odd thing that the LibDBX program did was to put the messages in the mailbox file in the exact opposite order to what I expected - the newest are at the top, whereas UNIX e-mail programs seem to add new messages to the end. This wasn't a serious problem in itself because Pine (like any mailer) can re-sort them when you open the mailbox. So a second and perhaps related question is - how can I re-order an existing mailbox file by date so that the file itself changes, rather than doing it dynamically (and slowly on a large mailbox) every time the mailbox is opened? Perhaps if I could solve this problem the first problem might go away because the whole file would get re-generated from scratch, assuming the program I use to to that can read it in the first place. Thanks James
