R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> added the comment:

All the references I could find talk about triggering the match without the 
proceeding newline.  That is, it is not certain that a blank line will precede 
the 'From ' header, and the typical quoting rules for mbox format call for any 
'From ' at the start of a line (whether preceded by a blank line or not) to be 
quoted.  This might have something to do with the fact that otherwise you have 
to special case the first line of the mbox, but I don't really know.

What tool are you using that is producing the unquoted 'From ' lines in your 
mbox?  I know there are variants on the mbox format, so if one of them has the 
format you propose, this would become a feature request to support that variant 
mbox format.

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