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Jonas Steverud <d4jonas@dtek.chalmers.se> writes:

> > Also, one question: What's a quick way to take an nnml folder and
> > convert it to an mbox-compliant file so that I can reprocess it with
> > procmail?  Or even a slow way?
> 
> % cat nnml-folder-dir/* > mboxfile
> Or have I missed something vital?

Yes, nnml messages don't contain a From_ line at the start, but an
mbox style file would need those. Your solution would create a file
with one very large message in it.

Better to create an nnmbox folder in Gnus, and respool the messages
from the nnml folder to the nnmbox folder with B c.

Hans