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RFC 822 is irrelevant since a message without a "From: " is not an RFC
822 message in the first place.

>>>>> "RFC822" == Standard for ARPA Internet Text Messages wrote:

RFC822> A.3.  COMPLETE HEADERS

RFC822>      A.3.1.  Minimum required

RFC822>      Date:     26 Aug 76 1429 EDT        Date:     26 Aug 76 1429 EDT
RFC822>      From:     Jones@Registry.Org   or   From:     Jones@Registry.Org
RFC822>      Bcc:                                To:       Smith@Registry.Org

The question is how to transform a piece of random junk in unix mbox
format into something resembling an RFC 822 message.  Using the
information in the `From ' message separator to generate a missing
`From:' and `Date:' header has worked fine for me when converting old
mbox.out files, and works fine for VM and many other mail agents.

And the right term is `message separator', the `From ' lines in an
mbox.out has nothing to do with sendmail envelope addresses.