Subject: Headers from ucb mail and elm

From: Bob Byers <bob@hsph>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 12:42:28 -0500

I have several large folders produced by either /usr/ucb/mail and/or elm. 
Now I want to read them using pine 3.91. However, pine can't figure out
who the original sender of each message was. Instead, it prints the index
something like.. 
                                                       
+   1   xxx -1 To: Byers <bob@hsph>   (812) test msg#1 
+   2   xxx -1 To: Byers <bob@hsph>  (1024) wet sprocket
+   3   xxx -1 To: Byers <bob@hsph>   (512) ack

As you can see, pine doesn't know who the original sender was. This is a
serious problem because using reply ("R") in pine doesn't fill in the
return address for me, it just leaves it blank. 

The folder has messages with the following pattern..

	From bill Fri Jan 7 16:34:12 1994
	Subject: wet sprocket
	To: Byers <bob@hsph>

I've discovered that if I insert a "Date:" and "From:" line _after_ the
original "From" line, all is OK, as far as pine is concerned. In other
words, the above pattern becomes.. 

	From bill Fri Jan 7 16:34:12 1994
	Date: Fri Jan 7 16:34:12 1994
	From: bill
	Subject: wet sprocket
	To: Byers <bob@hsph>

What is going on here? Is there any way to make pine happy with the
original folder? Or is my only hope to write a program to convert my
folders to the 2nd format? 

Thanks,

-Bob Byers
 Harvard School of Public Health
 Boston, MA 02115
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