Check the MSGSEP resource as Al suggests, but I've never used Pegasus
mail -- does it store files in mbox format, like Pine or Eudora? if
MSGSEP doesn't help you, try posting two consecutive raw messages from
your datastore to the list.
You can have a look at this messages saved from pegasus here:
http://www.termisoc.org/~andyk/chemfan/archive/chemfan.mails.inbox
MSGSEP helped somewhat. Thanks. But I had to use non-standard regexp.
With just plain -msgsep it didn't work (probably because of missing colon?).
I tried ^From:
but in that case I lost sender:
Chemistry in cooking, owner-chemfan
<Possible follow-up(s)>
Re: Chemistry in cooking, owner-chemfan
Re: Chemistry in cooking, owner-chemfan
Re: Chemistry in cooking, owner-chemfan
Belousov-Zhabotinski reactions, mhaj3478
Re: What is the most powerful poison?, chemfan
<Possible follow-up(s)>
Re: What is the most powerful poison?, chemfan
Re: What is the most powerful poison?, chemfan
Re: What is the most powerful poison?, chemfan
What is the most powerful poison?, Anonymous
What is the most powerful poison?, chemfan
Re: What is the most powerful poison?, chemfan
Re: What is the most powerful poison?, chemfan
Re: What is the most powerful poison?, chemfan
Re: What is the most powerful poison?, chemfan
Re: What is the most powerful poison?, chemfan
What is the most powerful poison?, chemfan
Photos of experiments, owner-chemfan
<Possible follow-up(s)>
Re: Photos of experiments, owner-chemfan
Re: Photos of experiments, Anonymous
Re: Photos of experiments, Anonymous
Re: Photos of experiments, Anonymous
Re: Photos of experiments, owner-chemfan
[..........]
Ice, chemfan
Re: Amidine, chemfan
<Possible follow-up(s)>
Amidine, chemfan
Acidity, chemfan
Email list?, Anonymous
Renewed Sex Life!, Anonymous
BOOST YOUR !SEX! APPEAL AND CHANGE YOUR LIFE, Anonymous
The most complex molecule, chemfan
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Then I tried ^-- and I received that:
/home/andyk/public_html/chemfan/archive> mhonarc -msgsep ^-- -outdir
/home/andyk
/public_html/chemfan/archive/
/home/andyk/public_html/chemfan/archive/chemfan.ma
ils.inbox
Converting messages to /home/andyk/public_html/chemfan/archive/
Reading /home/andyk/public_html/chemfan/archive/chemfan.mails.inbox ......
Warning: Could not parse date for message
Message-Id:
<21884(_dot_)941736021(_dot_)0(_at_)NO-ID-FOUND(_dot_)mhonarc(_dot_)org>
...............
Warning: Could not parse date for message
Message-Id:
<21884(_dot_)941736022(_dot_)1(_at_)NO-ID-FOUND(_dot_)mhonarc(_dot_)org>
......
[....... etc.......]
Warning: Could not parse date for message
Message-Id:
<21884(_dot_)941736028(_dot_)47(_at_)NO-ID-FOUND(_dot_)mhonarc(_dot_)org>
.
Warning: Could not parse date for message
Message-Id:
<21884(_dot_)941736028(_dot_)48(_at_)NO-ID-FOUND(_dot_)mhonarc(_dot_)org>
.............................
Warning: Could not parse date for message
Message-Id:
<21884(_dot_)941736030(_dot_)49(_at_)NO-ID-FOUND(_dot_)mhonarc(_dot_)org>
........................
Writing mail ...................................................................
................................................................................
...................................................................
Writing /home/andyk/public_html/chemfan/archive//maillist.html ...
Writing /home/andyk/public_html/chemfan/archive//threads.html ...
Writing database ...
214 messages
And consequently many messages are listed as anonymous:
No Subject, Anonymous
<Possible follow-up(s)>
No Subject, Anonymous
No Subject, Anonymous
No Subject, Anonymous
No Subject, Anonymous
[.........]
No Subject, Anonymous
No Subject, Anonymous
No Subject, Anonymous
No Subject, Anonymous
Any ideas what to do about that?
You may have a look at the file from which I take the posts:
http://www.termisoc.org/~andyk/chemfan/archive/chemfan.mails.inbox
and the thread:
http://www.termisoc.org/~andyk/chemfan/archive/threads.html
Thanks....
ak