On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 01:59:36PM -0400, Dan Barker wrote:
> My system is Windoze/IMail (5sp4/8.13) and the harry and susan (shouldn't
> call them Ham and Spam, should I) folders contain all mis-identified email
> in one giant flat file each.
> 
> Does this work?

If the file format is correct, sure.

> The doc mentions the folders but says diddly-squat/infinity about the
> contents of those folders.

Well, it does actually.  sa-learn supports mbox and mbx files.

> Format of a big flat file:
> 
> >From <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu Oct 21 17:17:58 2004
[...]
> >From <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu Oct 21 17:44:42 2004

this is almost mbox, except the mbox separator is escaped which won't work.

> the email is stored with ">From <" instead. So, a splitter will be trivial
> to write, but must I?

You could rewrite the ">From <...>" to be "From <...>", and then it's
apparently just an mbox file. :)

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