"import.exe" and unix mail

From: theo@ccnet3.ccnet.com
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 16:11:32 -0700

Lukasz Grochal wrote:

> Now - what's my problem: since I've just started using Yarn, I
> need to import some messages from my old mail program. They're all in
> a nice unix-mailbox format, but the import program won't accept them.

Use, import -r mailfile

where mailfile is a mailfile in Unix mail format. The -r option
tells import to except a flat ascii file in this format. Without
options, import expects to receive a (compressed) non-ascii, SOUP
packet with several files in it.