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Dmitry Yaitskov <dimas@home.com> wrote:

> Dmitry Yaitskov <dimas@home.com> wrote:
> 
> <snip-snip>
<snip-snip more>

Sorry. Here's a somewhat better version, against pop3.el version 2.03:

----------------------------cut here-------------------------------
--- e:\bin\XEmacs\xemacs-packages\lisp\mail-lib\pop3.el	Mon Mar 08 22:36:12 1999
+++ pop3.el	Mon Mar 29 15:22:04 1999
@@ -310,12 +310,18 @@
 
 (defun pop3-clean-region (start end)
   "Convert MS-DOG style line endings to normal line endings.
-Also remove '.' from the beginning of lines."
+Also remove '.' from the beginning of lines.
+Also escape 'From ' at the beginning of lines with '>'."
   (setq end (set-marker (make-marker) end))
   (save-excursion
     (goto-char start)
     (while (and (< (point) end) (search-forward "\r\n" end t))
       (replace-match "\n" t t))
+	;; Escape "\n\nFrom " (for mbox).
+    (goto-char start)
+	(while (re-search-forward "\n\n\\(From \\)" end t)
+	  (replace-match "\n\n>\\1" t nil))
+	;;
     (goto-char start)
     (while (and (< (point) end) (re-search-forward "^\\." end t))
       (replace-match "" t t)
----------------------------cut here-------------------------------

I think this is what movemail that comes with XEmacs does (I mean it
doesn't seem to look for more than just a "\n\nFrom ". And the
message that got screwed up in my mail had the following
innocent-looking line:

>>From that webpage:

that got treated like the start of a new message... FWIW.

-- 
Cheers,
-Dima.