df2mbox problem?

[John Goggan]

I've noticed that, suddenly, pine no longer thinks that my df2mbox create
files are mbox-formatted.  It sees the entire file as one long, single
message.

After researching it a bit, I see that it is because of the date on the From
line.  Basically, mbox format (although there seem to be multiple mbox
variations, but anyway...) seems to state that the date portion will be
exactly 24 characters.

Currently, df2mbox just calls "date" to get the date when generating the from
line:

echo From $from `date`

My system currently outputs something like this for `date`:

Mon Jul  8 19:04:45 EDT 2002

...which is too long and not liked by pine because it isn't in the mbox format
that it expects.  As a quick fix, I changed the line to:

echo From $from `date "+%a %b %d %T %Y"`

...so that the date generated looks like:

Mon Jul 08 19:06:36 2002

...and, I believe, should always be the required 24 characters.

Pine now likes the mbox-formatted file fine.

Just wanted to pass that along.

 - John...