bin/arch not processing mbox import corr

[Fuzzynco]

I needed to import an archive from yahoo!groups. a
list formerly on Y!G is now on my server with
MM2.1b3. After creating the mbox file with a perl
script na dtesting it with pine (to make sure all the
email is acuallu there), I tried to import it
using arch. there are a few thousand emails in the file,
but arch only finds 2? I posted to the mm users
mailing list and got a reply from Larry Weeks, said to
send him a copy of the file, and he tested it with
bin/arch from 2.0.6 and it works as expected.
since the mbox file is readable by pine, shouldn't arch
handle it correctly?

email me if i can provide any thing that would help
diagnose the problem.

thanks...
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[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

arch only handles mbox files in "Unix mbox format". Such
files delineate messages with a single line containing "From
" -- that's "F R O M space" at the front of the line.
There
can be stricter criteria on what follows that header, but
that's the gist of it. Maybe your individual files don't
have the right separator.

You can try running bin/cleanarch on the file to see if it's
close. Use --dry-run to just examine the file.

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

Moving this to Pending since there's been no follow up.