How to open a mbox file? Mutt displays no mails when calling mutt -f sent.mbox.
The mbox format is "From" without colon.
Is there any mbox viewer for Linux?
Thank you in advance.
The first line of the mail is the “envelope From line”. It begins with the 5 characters From␣ where ␣ is a space character. This is normal.
From Christian xxx <cg@xxx> Mon May 15 20:22:35 2010
What is unusual is that the email address is between <…>. This is unusual. I don't know if it's against the RFCs or not, but I can see Mutt chokes on it.
You should get a valid mailbox (as in, one that Mutt can parse) by processing the mailbox file through the formail command from procmail .
formail -ds sed '1 s/^From .* <(.*)>/From 1/' <sent.mbox >sent-reformatted.mbox
mutt -f sent-reformatted.mbox
